Intellectual Banterer Pillows

"Care for an oxymoron?"

"E=MC² Energy=Milk·Coffee²"

Intelligent people laugh too!

"Je suis Descartes, donc, je pense."

Scarcity

Archimedes statue with a lever

"...I don't believe in the past or the future. I don't even believe in right now. Everyone remembers the past differently. Everyone imagines the future differently. Everyone even disagrees about what's happening right now. So who's to say tomorrow what you and I did tonight?"

Schrödinger and his cat

'What do you mean 'theoretically'? Everything we do is theoretical.'

"It has great depth, realized with such a unique economy of paint application... yet, there remains a curious aura of drivel I can't dismiss."

"I don't like lawyer jokes. Lawyers don't think they're funny and other people don't think they're jokes."

The Giamatti era

'No, you weren't there. But in your expert opinion as a certified brainiac, do you think he did it?'

Macho talk from down in accounting.

A planet like ours - pub quiz dolphin

"The problem is you say Nietzsche and expect everything to be just peachy."

"An open one-to-one environment is what you want, an open one-to-one environment is what you get, Ms Praed."

'This isn't a non-profit-making organization you know! Or at least, it wasn't until you started working here!'

Science Snobs

"The studio's asked me to see if I can dumb down some Danielle Steel."

Auguste Comte

'Heidegger-Hi!'

'I'm left brained and I needed some right brains.'

Vladimir Nabokov

Clever pitbulls.

"We were poor and had the good sense to be miserable."

'I can understand Heisenberg's equation and Schrodinger's equation for quantum mechanics but I cannot understand derivative trading.'

'I'd like an 'Innuendo' please - a big one.'

My other novel's a booker winner

'I don't think therefore I'm not.'

"But seriously, medal of honor from the Academy of Sciences aside, who are you?"