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A quotation from Douglas Adams
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Speech (1998-09), “Is There an Artificial God?”, Digital Biota 2 conference, Cambridge, UK
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“I don’t want to die now! I’ve still got a headache! I don’t want to go to heaven with a headache, I’d be all cross and wouldn’t enjoy it!”
He reached out and pressed an invitingly large red button on a nearby panel. The panel lit up with the words Please do not press this button again.
Zaphod: The building's being bombed! Who in their right minds would want to bomb a publishing company?
Zaphod opened the door of the box and stepped in. Inside the box he waited. After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.
It: No, the answer is an orange and two lemons.
They obstinately persisted in their absence.
‘The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was.’
Same, Arthur. Same.
"What did she say?"
"She hit me on the head with the rock again."
"I think I can confirm that that was my daughter."
"Sweet kid."
"You have to get to know her," said Arthur.
"She eases up, does she?"
"No," said Arthur, "but you get a better sense of when to duck."
Once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.
The alien ship was already thundering toward the upper reaches of the atmosphere, on its way out into the appalling void that separates the very few things there are in the Universe from one another.