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'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.
In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.
They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.
If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.
Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.
He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.
He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.
Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.
I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!
It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.
One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.
Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.
How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.
My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.
Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.
I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.
I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.
Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.
I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.
What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?
If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.
Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.
I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.
Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.
The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless
There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.