It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, As pretty as an airport.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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.
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.
This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
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.
Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.""Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.
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 tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place.
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.
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.
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
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 'us'.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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.
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two, said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm."
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this h
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a b
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.
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Another world, another day, another dawn. The early morning’s thinnest sliver of light appeared silently.
