Rule Six: The winning team shall be the first team that wins.
Share and Enjoy' is the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Division, which now covers the major land masses of three medium-sized planets and is the only...
Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.
So this is it, said Arthur, We are going to die.Yes, said Ford, except... no! Wait a minute! He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. What's this switch? he c...
The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as Your Plastic Pal...
The President of the Universe holds no real power. His sole purpose is to take attention away from where the power truly exists...
The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of th...
The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes.
The light works, he said, indicating the window, the gravity works, he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. Anything else we have to take our chances with.
Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted...
What was the Sherlock Holmes principle? ‘Once you have discounted the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’ I reject that entirely, said Dirk sharply. The imposs...
What was the self-sacrifice?I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes.Why was that self-sacrifice?Because they were mine! said Ford, crossly.I think we have different v...
Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.
You have a time machine and you use it for... watching television?Well, I wouldn't use it at all if I could get the hang of the video recorder.
You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
You're a jerk,' repeated the alien, 'a complete asshole.
[...]he also had a device which looked rather like a largish electronic calculator. This had about a hundred tiny flat press buttons and a screen about four inches square on which any one of a million...
[Ford said] .. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.Odd, said Arthur. I thought you said it was a democracy.I did,...
And we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
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