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"I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."
"The best way to survive a crash landing was to avoid a crash landing."
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
"Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
"The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
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"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
"This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."
"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
"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."
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
"I like the noise of a bag of nails being shaken."
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
"The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
"A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'"
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
"I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be."
"The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead."
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
"There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened."
"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
"Reality is frequently inaccurate."
"The Guide says there is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."
"Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it."
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
"Life is wasted on the living."
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
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"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
"Don't panic."
"The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is 42."
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
"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."
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks."
"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
"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."
"The story so far: In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."
"The chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied."
"Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast."
"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."
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of flying: There is an art, it says, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer."
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