All Quotes

"Turing had a strong predeliction for working things out from first principles, usually in the first instance without consulting any previous work on the subject, and no doubt it was this habit which gave his work that characteristically original flavor. I was reminded of a remark which Beethoven is reputed to have made when he was asked if he had heard a certain work of Mozart which was attracting much attention. He replied that he had not, and added "neither shall I do so, lest I forfeit some of my own originality.""

"He was particularly fond of little programming tricks (some people would say that he was too fond of them to be a "good" programmer) and would chuckle with boyish good humor at any little tricks I may have used."

""We'll probably just play the greatest hits set again, give the people the shit they want to hear." (from a 2008 interview)"

""Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!" (Jon commenting on the parents that blame music for the violence.)"

""The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death." (commenting on how he feels about rock and pop.)"

""It's my purse."(talking about his sporran)"

""If he gets into drugs or something stupid like that, then I'll kick his ass, but otherwise he's got to live his life, even now." (talking about son and parenthood.)"

"The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute."

"The fans have been really incredible everywhere we've been....You want to make sure you put on the best concert of your life to show them how appreciative you are."

""People die from typewriters falling on their heads." (talking about taking chances because you can die at any moment.)"

""They're all, 'Dude, we're sorry. We were just kids. Your know how kids are. Growing up' and I'm just like "Shut up!'" (talking about when he meets people from his high school.)"

"I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny."

""When you’re really depressed it's good to hear someone be hurt too, when I get depressed I listen to my own fucking music. I put us on." (on his suicidal tendencies.)"

"I think I'm a clinical worrier, I worry about everything and I've always been that way. I want to make sure that everything works out as planned and I just get lost in my worries and fears. As if that isn't enough, I also worry about everybody else and try to carry their burden. It's like I'm trying to carry the weight of the whole world on my shoulders."

"You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same."

"Speaking is more profitable than writing, so I want to thank you for the cushy berth here."

"If you are going to be a writer, you must be paranoid. The thing is, in the arts if you don't overreact, you fall asleep."

"The big advantage of being a chemistry major was the freedom to be tasteless."

"There is a similarity between writers and SDS [Students for a Democratic Society, a radical left-wing group]: Plenty of paranoia, but no ideas."

"Science fiction is like other writing. It is just novels and short stories with machines."

"Be kind. Don't kill for any reason. Don't even kill out of self-defense. Really — I mean that. Don't take any more than you need of anything. Help others."

"Humor is a way of coping with real trouble. … My next book [Slaughterhouse Five] is a comedy. It is about the largest massacre in the history of Europe."

"I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever."

"High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of."

"I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade."

"Dave Lister, the only human survivor, who was suspended in stasis for 3 million years; played by Craig Charles"

"Arnold Rimmer, a hologram of Lister's former superior; played by Chris Barrie"

"The Cat, the last known member of a race of humanoids evolved from Lister's cat; played by Danny John-Jules"

"Kryten, a mechanoid originally from the Nova 5 whom Lister rebuilt; played by David Ross in the Series II episode, Kryten, and by Robert Llewellyn beginning from the Series III episode Backwards onward"

"Holly, the supercomputer onboard Red Dwarf; played by Norman Lovett from Series I-II and VII onward and Hattie Hayridge from Series III-V"

"Kristine Kochanski, a version of Lister's former girlfriend from a parallel universe; played by Chloë Annett"

"Craig Charles - Dave Lister (Series I - Present)"

"Danny John-Jules - The Cat (Series I - Present)"

"Chris Barrie - Arnold Rimmer (Series I - Present)"

"Robert Llewellyn - Kryten (Series III - Present)"

"Norman Lovett - Holly (Series I - II, VII - VIII, XII - The Promised Land)"

"Hattie Hayridge - Holly (Series III - V)"

"Clare Grogan - Kristine Kochanski (Series I, II, VI) Chloë Annett - Kristine Kochanski (Series VII - VIII, Back to Earth)"

"Mac McDonald - Captain Frank Hollister (Series I - II, VIII, XII)"

"Julia: So that's the monster."

"Leonard: Do you think it's possible that bad writing actually attracts a higher incidence of error?"

"Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of these terrible times again and I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices and can't concentrate. So I'm doing what seems to be the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I know that I'm spoiling your life and without me you could work, and you will, I know. You see, I can't even write this properly. What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me. And incredibly good. Everything is gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been."

"Leonard, I believe I may have a first sentence."

"A woman's whole life in a single day. Just one day. And in that day her whole life."

"It's on this day. This day of all days. Her fate becomes clear to her."

"I can't think of anything more exhilarating than a trip to London."

"I am saying, Vanessa, that even crazy people like to be asked."

"Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? It is possible to die. It is possible to die."

"I am attended by doctors! Everywhere, I am attended by doctors who inform me of my own interests."

"I am ungrateful? You call me ungrateful? My life has been stolen from me. I'm living in a town I have no wish to live in. I'm living a life I have no wish to live. How did this happen?"