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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…
- If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it…
- 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…
- 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…
- If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer,…
- Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow pizza.
- A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite…
- One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of…
- For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two -…
- One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take…
- The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect…
- Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point…
- First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it…
- and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang…
- Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.
- There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if…
- Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that…
- 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…
- Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting…
- How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.
- He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone…
- You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'Yeah,' said Zaphod, 'but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' 'THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'No, just A Zaphod Beeblebrox,…
- 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…
- Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.
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