Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don’t quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.
When the idea comes, I often can’t remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker’s. It’s almost as if someone else wrote it.
There is no problem so complicated that you can’t find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.
Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.
I think media are at their most interesting before anybody’s thought of calling them art, when people still think they’re just a load of junk.
Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.
Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.
There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.
Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word ‘safe’ that I wasn’t previously aware of.
It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know the expression.
Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.
If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.
“Six pints of bitter,” said Ford Prefect. “And quickly please, the world’s about to end.”
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.
For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and satisfied, drove on into the night.
Life! Don’t talk to me about life!
Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.
Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.