Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This...
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's...
Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café...
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.
We're not obsessed by anything, you see, insisted Ford....And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.I care about lots of things, said Slartibartfast...
Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the process of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks. Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else which thinks at least as logically...
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, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tal...
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk t...
I think we have different value systems. —ArthurWell mine's better. —Ford
Forty-two! yelled Loonquawl. Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work? I checked it very thoroughly, said the computer, and that quite definitely is the answer. I think...
Ford! he said, there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for they've worked out.
Alltami (n.)The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.
There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate!
He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
Q: Do you feel concerned that after all this work, people won't treat [Starship Titanic] with the gravity of, say, a movie or a book? That they won't treat it as an art form?D.A.: I hope that's the ca...
Showing 141 to 160 of 589 results