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He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

From The Art of Living by Epictetus

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet, going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away, and think this is normal is amazing.

From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.

From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down.

From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

When you think about it, we are all just bags of organs.

From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

It's a good idea to be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out.

From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.

From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

From Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

If you can’t take a joke, you can’t take the truth.

From Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

From The Enchiridion by Epictetus

I was the kid who put the shoe on the wrong foot.

From Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Artificial intelligence is about making machines that can think like humans, but often they end up being more like humans than we expect.

From You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane

I never could stand that guy. He's a complete and utter moron.

From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.

From The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman