There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.? Ah, well, I’m not sure I believe that.
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII – and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure.
There’s always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it’s with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it’s one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.
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.
Life is wasted on the living.
It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.
The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
Ow! My brains!
So the hours are pretty good then?? he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,? he said, ’but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
We’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the ‘Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence’ syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.
It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.
He put some more cold pizza into his face.
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
Assumptions are what we don’t know we are making.
The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don’t even know you are making.