We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would of...
There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.
For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.
There was no way his imagination could feel the impact of the whole Earth having gone, it was too big. He prodded his feelings by thinking that his parent and his sister had gone. No reaction.He thoug...
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.
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?
They’ve got as much sex appeal as a road accident.
So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed.The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths.Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual m...
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.
Mr Cjelli, nice to see you back, sir. Sorry you had a spot of bother, hope that's all behind you now.Indeed, Bill, it is. You find me thriving. And Mrs Roberts? How is she? Foot still troubling her?No...
What do you get if you multiply six by nine?Six by nine. Forty two.That's it. That's all there is.I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe
Time blossomed, matter shrank away. The highest prime number coalesced quietly in a corner and hid itself away for ever.
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
The rest of you... keep banging the rocks together
Ghastly, continued Marvin, it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door, he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator as he mimicke...
After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whet...
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 i...
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.
The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely small.
If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human bod...
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