Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.
We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.
The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.
I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you’ve always had.
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.
Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.
I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.
You can’t possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you’re a fool.
Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.
There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler’s mind.
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before – and thus was the Empire forged.
And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you’re doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.