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Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up.

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 what?" Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

The story goes that I first had the idea for The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes.

He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

This must be Thursday, ' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Life is wasted on the living.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Don't Panic.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

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.

If I ever meet myself, ' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was."Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

Ow! My brains!

What's up?" [asked Ford.]"I don't know, " said Marvin, "I've never been there.

My capacity for happiness, " he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

God's Final Message to His Creation:'We apologize for the inconvenience.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist, " says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.""Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays

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 what?"Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.

I think we have different value systems." —Arthur"Well mine's better." —Ford

Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

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 get hit by the shrapnel.

What's so unpleasant about being drunk?""Ask a glass of water!

Life, ” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

Beppu (n.)The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

Alltami (n.)The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

Aberystwyth (n.)A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool approaching critical mass, this is... this is... total vocabulary failure!

Don't panic and carry a towel

This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be the perfect time to disembark.

ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror big enough—see point one.

Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I'm not married to.

Reality is frequently inaccurate.

...just because you see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s there. And if you don’t see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s not there. It’s only what your senses bring to your attention.