Quotes about humor

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.

The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Someone who says “I am busy” is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

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

What they call “play” (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse.

They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking “outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box.

You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.