Agatha Christie

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#fool

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#errors #technology #technology

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#laziness #trouble

Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#betrayal #love

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#humour #love #lovers #sheep #love

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#men

To every problem, there is a most simple solution. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#inspirational

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#scientific-method #style

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#potential