If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you are in trouble, need a hand out of a tight corner, please, don't hesitate to get lost.
Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than...
Q: Do you feel concerned that after all this work, people won't treat [Starship Titanic] with the gravity of, say, a movie or a book? That they won't treat it as an art form?D.A.: I hope that's the ca...
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
The rest of you... keep banging the rocks together
Something almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea
You're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off.
You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about the fabric of space-time and the causal integrity of the multidimensional...
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
Trin Tragula—for that was his name—was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.Excerpt From: Adams, Douglas. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gala...
The trouble with most forms of transport, he thought, is basically one of them not being worth all the bother. On Earth — when there had been an Earth, before it was demolished to make way for a new h...
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects...
The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!
The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all u...
So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked.He looked at me as if I were stupid.'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.