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...
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).
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?...
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
God's Final Message to His Creation:'We apologize for the inconvenience.
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...
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?
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.
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.
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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.
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer
Time is bunk.
Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.
We already have the Wooden Pillar, the Steel Pillar and the Plastic Pillar. In a moment we will have the Golden Bail....'No, you won't.'We will,' stated the robot simply.No, you won't. It makes my shi...