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- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot…
- This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
- People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness…
- Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to…
- I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to…
- SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom
- 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…
- I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is…
- And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to…
- It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get…
- Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels…
- But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment." I've seen it. It's rubbish," said Zaphod,"nothing but a gnab gib." A…
- I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.
- The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial,…
- I begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a head injury. I…
- The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much…
- 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…
- Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.
- Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.†“Yeah,†said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people…
- No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives…
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