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- The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem…
- The story goes that I first had the idea for The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.
- All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you…
- Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to…
- First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it…
- R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than,…
- The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly…
- The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as…
- One day old Thrashbarg said that Almighty Bob had declared that he, Thrashbarg, was to have first pick of the sandwiches. The villagers asked him…
- See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
- Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.
- But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If…
- If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
- When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with…
- If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond…
- It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for…
- In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica…
- My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
- I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.
- One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the…
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