By Douglas Adams
– The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
– For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to raw attention away from it.
– In the book, the actual Hitchhiker’s Guide comes on a Ipad, with a touch screen and is an audio book
– …as if the relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules.
– And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the world’s they settled on.
– All this Margrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. 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?
– “I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”
– Infinity itself looked flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.
– “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. Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway.”
– Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I’d far rather be happy than right any day.
– It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives