Quotes about humor

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

His theory of golf is, never play any sport that requires you to dress as your grandfather.

Any aeai [A.I., artificial intelligence ] smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.

The sensible person reads the sociological journals mainly for the book reviews and the obituaries, and goes to sociological meetings only if he is looking for a job or has other intrigues to carry on.

In science as in love a concentration on technique is quite likely to lead to impotence.

There are very few jokes about sociologists.

Science is a smorgasbord, and Google will guide you to the study that's right for you.

That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end.

“What’s going on?” I whispered to Gina.

“Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don’t have enough to do,” she murmured back. “So they’ve invented a new acronym.”

Ah, Hollywood, where everybody wants to be in the movies and nobody’s ever bothered to watch one.

There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I’d like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O’Reilly’s macaques, which have to have more sense.

“Fifty-nine,” Mr. Mowen said. “That’s too many coincidences to just be a coincidence.”