The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible t...
God's Final Message to His Creation:'We apologize for the inconvenience.
Time is bunk.
Arthur shook his head and sat down. He looked up.I thought you must be dead … he said simply.So did I for a while, said Ford, and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amus...
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it?...
The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all).
It's quicker, easier, and involves less licking
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
How many roads must a man walk down?
Sorry, did I say something wrong? said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed. Here's...
It’s easy to think that as a result of the extinction of the dodo, we are now sadder and wiser, but there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that we are merely sadder and better informed.
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
And the most interesting natural structure?A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, an...
Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.