78 Quotes by John LLoyd

You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising. But not all surprising things are funny.

We are very, very pleased with progress so far.

I still don't like authority exercised without reason. But they laugh at you at Cambridge if you say that sort of thing. For them, the law is a system of rules not that different from mathematics.

I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I'm not scared of change.

The universe is fractal. The closer you look at it, the more interesting it becomes.

It's not possible to say where the explosives came from,

It's very frustrating to pay in order to stand still.

I have very strong views on TV. There's no diversity, there's no choice. Things are decided by committee.

I probably did pack a lifetime's work into the 1980s.