“I thought you people had a manual for this kind of thing.” He laughed. “We have a manual. Magic doesn’t.”
“Still, this whole grim reaper thing should have come with a manual. Or a diagram of some kind. A flowchart would have been nice.”
“Yes, I have made mistakes because life didn't come with user manual.”
“Literature is not an instruction manual.”
“Life with the Guru - there is no manual.”
“You know what your trouble is? You're the kind whoalways reads the handbook. Anything people build,any kind of technology, it's going to have some specificpurpose. It's for doing something that somebody alreadyunderstands. But if it's new technology, it'll openareas nobody's ever thought of before. You read the manual,man, and you won't play around with it, not the same way.And you get all funny when somebody else uses it to dosomething you never thought of.”