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There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.
Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know the expression.
If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.
I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.
Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.
I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!
Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.
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 point A very fast.
'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'
How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.
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.
If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner..." "Yeah?" "Please don't hesitate to get lost.
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.
Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.
There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.
That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.
When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.
I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.
There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes
Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.
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 in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.
Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...
The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.
The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.
If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?
I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.
Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.
Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.
It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.
The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.
And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.
Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.
He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.