Damek.

Perhaps as an antidote to the previous post, or maybe in harmony with it, I offer up this. Holy cow I love Douglas Adams. I need to re-read and read more of him, too. Here are two quotes you can find on wikiquote’s Douglas Adams page:

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened, it’s just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.

That was Adams answering Richard Dawkins’ question ‘What is it about science that really gets your blood running?’ as quoted in Dawkins’ Eulogy for Douglas Adams

And this, from a 1998 speech:

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 to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

From Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency:

Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.

And finally:

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.