Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can...
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...
Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service.Shut up.Thank you.Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making a simple door very happy.Hope your diodes rot.Thank you. Have a nice day.Stomp...
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...
There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate!
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
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 think we have different value systems. —ArthurWell mine's better. —Ford
He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The way it functioned was very interesting. When...
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.
And so the Universe ended.
Aberystwyth (n.)A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.
Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that there was some extraordinary way in which you were very important t...
What's so unpleasant about being drunk?Ask a glass of water!
The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.
The mice were furious.[...]Oh yes, said the old man mildly.Yes well so I expect were the dogs and cats and duckbilled platypuses, but...Ah, but they hadn't paid for it you see, had they?Look, said Art...
She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.
Laden with all these new possessions, I go and sit at a table. And don't ask me what the table was like because this was some time ago and I can't remember. It was probably round. [...]So let me give...
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.