Ian > Ian's Quotes

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.”
― William Shakespeare

“We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.”
― Alan Bennett, Getting on

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Graham glared him into silence, his eyes cold enough to make a penguin wish it had stocked up on thermal underwear.”
― Ian Barker, Fallen Star

“I allowed an uncertain smile to cross my face, though it did so with a little reluctance, wary of being run down by some more powerful expression.”
― Ian Barker, One Hot Summer

“You can gauge the righteousness of your cause by the ugliness of the abuse it provokes.”
― Winston Churchill

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984