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Quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
by Douglas AdamsTHE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
"`This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, `I never could get the hang of Thursdays.'"
-- Arthur, on what was to be his last Thurssday on Earth."`The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat...'"
-- The Book, on one of the Vogon's social iinadequacies."`You'd better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It's unpleasently like being drunk.'
`What's so unpleasent about being drunk?'
`You ask a glass of water.'"
-- Arthur getting ready for his first jump into hyperspace."`If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.'"
-- Zaphod.THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
"The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it."
-- Ford making his way out of Milliways whilst under the influence of enough alchol to make a rhino sing."`The first ten million years were the worst,' said Marvin, `and the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.'"
-- Marvin reflecting back on his 576,000,003,579 year career as Milliways' car park attendent.LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING
"Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
-- Arthur realising that he's in a certain death situation with a supernova bomb that is shaped like a cricket ball." Why stop now just when I'm hating it?"
SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
"There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind."
MOSTLY HARMLESS
"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 to get at or repair."
-- One of the laws of computers and programming revealed.GENERAL
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexeplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
For a moment, nothing happened.Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
His study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.
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.
INFINITE: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that, in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big" time. Infinity is so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."
In case of major discrepancy, it's always reality that's got it wrong.
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand million, nine hundred and ninety- nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety- nine times out of a billion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.
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© 2004, by Robs