- Janice Fife: Your maths tutor told me you were lazy.
- Ben: Does she think you can change that?
- Janice Fife: I don't want to change that.
- Ben: Sorry?
- Janice Fife: Hard workers are only good at filling up their days. Lazy people look for shortcuts. Maths, when properly understood, is a shortcut.
- Ben: Yeah?
- Janice Fife: 90% of human inventiveness is an attempt to have more time off and somewhere to sit. Without laziness we'd all be working the fields.
- Harry Watling: Basically, you guessed.
- Jefferson Grieff: Well, yeah. Guessing is how reason proceeds in the absence of fact.