Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.
My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water.
Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.
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 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 worlds they'd settled on.
What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
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.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.
Aveva pensato che se gli esseri umani non si esercitavano in continuazione ad aprire e chiudere la bocca, correvano il rischio di cominciare a far lavorare il cervello.
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.
Just because he's in the fast lane don't mean he ain't hitchhiking.
A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jagla...
As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it.
The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this:
The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
