-"Alcohol is a mentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicationg effects on certain carbon-based life forms."
-"The best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster... which is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick"
-"A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have"
-"The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy tells you everything you need to know about anything>"
-"On no Account allow a Wogon to read poetry at you"
-"Dont Panic"
-"The bable fish.. is a a small, yellow and leechlike and probably the oddest thing in the universe.... The poor bable fish removes all barriers to communication"
-"Space, it is really big"
-"Intersteller distances will not fit into the human imagination"
-"if you holda lungful of air you can survive in the total vacuum of space of 30 seconds. However the probablitiy of being picked up is 2 to the power of 276,709 to 1"
-"The Infinite Improbablity Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast intersteller distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without all the tedious mucking aobut in hyperspace."
-"All the doors in this space ship have a cheerful and sunny dispostion. It is there pleasure to open for you and there satisfaction to cloase again with a knowlevdge of aa job well done"
-"There are manyy problems connect with life...Wahy are people born? Whay do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time waring digital watches?"
-"I discribe myself as the second greatest...I speak of (best computer) none but the computer that is to come after me."
-"The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, The Universe, and Everything..is...Forty-Two"
-"I'll tell you who can (find the Ulitmate Question)... The Earth"
-"This is probably the best button to press"
-"The history of every major Galactic civilzation tends to pass though 3 phases, those of suvival, inquiry and Sophistication... How, Why and Where.
-"where? to you ship did you bring it,.. where is your jacket. ...they wathced the pocket on the jacketsuddenly bludge" yes the ship is in his pocket heheehehehehee
-"One of the major problems encounter in time travel is nother of accidentally becoming your own mother or farther."
-"The Restaurant at The End of the Universe is built in a vast time bubble and projected forward in time to the precise moment of the End of the Universe"
-"At The Restaurant at The End of the Universe you have to use the past tense alot cause everything's been already done."
-"Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some"
-"In an infinite universe anything can happen"
-"people are the problem"
-"Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to do it can be aloowed to?"
-"What do you get if you multiplt six by nine... forty-two
-"I am going to go mad... Go idea"
-"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss"
-"The night sky over the planet Krikket is the least interesting sight in the entire universe"
-"Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers, Depended on the on the observers movement in space and that time was not an absolute but depended on the observers movement in time so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute but depend on the observers movement in restaurants. The 1st nonabsolute number is the number of people for whom the table is reserved. The 2nd nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival. The 3rd is the relationship between the # of items on the check, the cost of each item, the # of people at table, and what they are each prepared to pay for."(More details in chapter 5)
-"Time travel is increasingly regarded as a menace. History is being polluted."
-"The past is like a foreign country"
-"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes"
-"You should be more matress like. It would do alot of good for you
-"Rain Type 17 was a dirty blatter against his windshield so hard that it didn't make much odds whether he had his wipers on or off."
-"My other car is also a Porsche."
-" No Field researchs of hithchikes guide is allowed to accept anykind of service, discounts, or preferential treatmentof anykind in turn fo editorial favors unless, a. they have made a bona fide attept to pay for a service in normal way b. their lives would be otherwise in danger, c. they really want to"
-"Surviving in New York City: get a job as a cabdriver immediately... Dont worry if you dont know how the machine works and you cant speak the language, diont understand the geography, or the basic physics of the area, and have a large green antenna growing out of your head."
-"So long and thanks for all the fish, from the dophins"
-"Starting a new religion is just a way of saying hi"
-"The problem is change"
-"There is, for some unfathomed reason, something almost unbearably sexy about having huge fire-breathing magical dragons flying low about the sky on moonlit nights which were already dangerously on the sweet and fragrant side.
-"Life is like a grapefruit"
-"This is an imprtant announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans don not include Los Angles, now would be a perfect time to disembark"
-"Take me to your lizard"
-"We apollogize for the inconvenience"
-"There was a point to this story, but it has temporality escaped the chronicle's mind."
-"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
-"One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living... ...life will always fund a way of hanging on in somewhere. It will even live in New York"
-Paralle Universe "You dont have the remotest chance of understanding them."
-"The first thing to realize about parallel universes...is that they are not parallel"
-"Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the process of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks. Anything that links logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does."
-"There is an art to the business of making sandwitchs which it is given to few even to find the time to explore in depth.It is a siple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound"
-"For a long period of time there was much speculation and controversy about where the so called "missing matter" of the universe had got to... but when eventually it was tracked down it turned out in fact to be all the stuff the equipment [used to find missing matter] had been packed in"
-"I can tell you that in your universe you move freely in three dimensions that you call space. You move in a straight line in a fourth, and stay rooted in one place in a fifth, which is the first funcamental of probablity. After that it get a bit complicated, and there's all sorts of stuff going on in the thirteen to twentytwo that you really wouldn't want to know about. All you need to know ... is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you may think."
-"Just because you see something, doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there."
-"Reverse enginereering... The flow of time is irrelevant. You decide what you want. Then merely make sure that it has already happened."
-"Earth, Mostly Harmless"
Special Thanks to Douglass Adams for writing these books
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