“I am so hip even my errors are correct”

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Tullett v. Armstrong (1838), 1 Beav. 31.
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Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
Context: The idea of being constructive, creative, positive, in trying to bring out the best in one's own self and the best in others follows from what I've just been saying. Again, I repeat my belief in us, in ourselves, as the product of the process of evolution, and part of the process itself. I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience. It's the need to dedicate one's self in that way, to one's own self, and to choose an activity or life that is of value not only to yourself but to others as well.

Source: The 19th Wife

1860s, Letter to Horace Greeley (1862)

Inaccuracy
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XXII - Reconciliation

Academy of Achievement interview (1991)
Context: I judge things from an evolutionary perspective — "How does this serve and contribute to the process of our own evolution?" — rather than think of good and evil in moral terms. I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.