“And now for something completely different…”

— John Cleese

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John Cleese 32

actor from England 1939

Christopher Trace (1933–1992) British television presenter

Catch phrase, quoted in Obituary: Christopher Trace http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-christopher-trace-1550064.html by Biddy Baxter, 8 September 1992.

“I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.”

Anton Zeilinger (1945) Austrian quantum physicist

as quoted by [Colin Bruce, Schrödinger's rabbits: the many worlds of quantum, Joseph Henry Press, 2004, 0309090512, 213]

“Everything is different from now on. Something, something very fundamental has changed, here.”

William Gibson (1948) American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder of the cyberpunk subgenre

No Maps for These Territories (2000)
Context: I think the last time... the last time I had one of those "CNN moments," where I was slammed right up against the windshield of — of the present — would have been flipping on the television one day, and seeing that Federal Building in Oklahoma City lying there in its own … crater, and listening to a little bit of the audio, and … and getting the idea that something, something bad had happened in Middle America. And I had … some … very, very deep within me, something seemed to say, "Everything is different from now on. Something, something very fundamental has changed, here." … Whenever something like this happens, and I have one of these moments, it ups the ante on being a science-fiction writer. It changes … it changes the nature of the game.