Quotes about humor

I’m not a joiner. Any time you work with people, they turn out to be inept clowns.

Let us quickly be finished with the business of dying, to save the trouble of making dinner.

It’s important to feel good about yourself. This morning I met somebody I really like—me.

Trusting Merlin is like giving a migrant scorpion a lift inside your hat.

Art, like a lot of things, is a lost art.

I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

It was hard to avoid the feeling that somebody, somewhere, was missing the point. I couldn’t even be sure it wasn’t me.

I believe in traveling light, but then I also believe that I should give up smoking and shop early for Christmas.

I didn’t notice that I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.

I’ve never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I’ve seen a few and they’re never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you’re in the right frame of mind, which is usually around lunchtime.

When we told our guide that we didn’t want to go to all the tourist places, he took us instead to the places where they take tourists who say that they don’t want to go to tourist places. These places are, of course, full of tourists. Which is not to say that we weren’t tourists every bit as much as the others, but it does highlight the irony that everything you go to see is changed by the very action of going to see it, which is the sort of problem which physicists have been wrestling with for most of this century.