"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
- Douglas Adams
"I had learned that a dexterous, opposable thumb stood among the hallmarks of human success. We had maintained, even exaggerated, this important flexibility of our primate forebears, while most mammals..."
- Stephen Jay Gould
"This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them."
- Ben Aaronovitch