Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying Blood...blood...blood...blood...
Ford was beginning to behave rather strangely, or rather not actually beginning to behave strangely but beginning to behave in a way that was strangely different from the other strange ways in which h...
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.
He sniggered.He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an h...
He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think o...
Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.
How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?
I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style
I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.
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.
If, [the management consultant] said tersely, we could for a moment move on to the subject of fiscal policy. . .Fiscal policy! whooped Ford Prefect. Fiscal policy!The management consultant gave him a...
Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression it turns out to be incredibly useful? It allows you to make swift, succinct, and authoritative connections between otherwise randomly unconnected sta...
It gives me my headache just trying to think down to your level
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you. Human beings, for instance, have a phrase that describes this phenomenon, ‘The other man’s g...
It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to it...
Marvin, he said, just get this elevator go up will you? We've got to get to Zarniwoop.Why? asked Marvin dolefully. I don't know, said Zaphod, but when I find him, he'd better have a very good reason f...
NO ADMITTANCE.NOT EVEN TO AUTHORISED PERSONNEL.YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE.GO AWAY.
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.
People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.
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