Han Solo: (blindly peering around) So, how we doin'?
Luke Skywaker: Same as always.
Han: That bad, huh?
Luke Skywaker: Same as always.
Han: That bad, huh?
“To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.”
—Marshall McLuhan
In Heat, our characters screw up a perfectly-planned heist (does that really surprise you anymore?)
“Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move..."
—Martin Amis, Money
"You know, of all the series, it's shocking that I can't find a Farscape facepalm image when there are so many times they should be facepalming."
"Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding … The Almighty has his own purposes.”
—Abraham Lincoln on the American Civil War, second inaugural address
"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable."
"There are only four rules you need to remember: Make the plan, execute the plan, expect the plan to go off the rails... Throw away the plan."
—Leonard Snart, The Flash (2014)
Adrien: Your great plan didn't really work out, Plagg.
Plagg: Are you kidding? It worked better than if it had actually worked!
Plagg: Are you kidding? It worked better than if it had actually worked!
—Miraculous Ladybug, "Kuro Neko"
Raine: We need a cover story. Why didn’t we think of a cover story?
Nia: Mal! I thought you were meant to be good at this!
Mal: I don’t do plans! Plans are just begging the universe to make it all go wrong!
