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

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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

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 out for themselves.

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

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

I no longer want to see others as humans. I want to learn to see others as brothers, sisters, mothers, & fathers.

The things you struggle with today are the things you choose to struggle with.Because you believe that what you want to accomplish, is worth struggling for.

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.

You know what I think my best quality is? I think I'm nice to have around. I'd hate it if I weren't around!

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests

The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.