"The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people."

“Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.”

Source : Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.55, Cambridge University Press

“God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.”

“When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.”

“Anything worth doing is worth 100%.”

“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”

Source : Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.54, The Overlook Press

“Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits are both the hallmark of capitalism and its Achilles heel, for no business can permanently maintain its prices much above its costs. There is only one way in which profits can be perpetuated; a business-or an entire economy-must grow.”

“When you're a comedian, the Holy Grail is an hour long HBO special.”

“And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.”