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Sub-editors. Bastards. What about all that copy of his they'd cut? Fifteen years of research he'd filed from one planet alone and they'd cut it to two words. "Mostly harmless." The finger to them as well.
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"You stay there," said Ford, "and you'll soon be recaptured and have your conditional chip replaced. You want to stay happy, come now."
The robot let out a long heartfelt sigh of impassioned tristesse and sank reluctantly away from the ceiling. -
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
"And are you?"
"No, that's where it all falls down, of course."
"Pity," said Arthur with sympathy. "It sounded like quite a good lifestyle otherwise." -
Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."
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It is said that his birth was marked by earthquakes, tidal waves, tornadoes, firestorms, the explosion of three neighbouring stars ... However, the only person by whom this is said is Beeblebrox himself, and there are several possible theories to explain this.
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Ah . . . ! What's happening? it thought.
Er, excuse me, who am I?
Hello?
Why am I here? What's my purpose in life?
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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.
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"Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal."
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"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm...
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"We can charge the Unnecessarily Painful Slow Death torpedoes on the trip. Hyperspace static will give them a little extra sting."
Jeltz nodded approvingly. "You, Mown, are an utter bastard."
"Thanks, Dad," he said. -
The doors of the elevator slid open to reveal a large posse of security guards and robots poised waiting for it and brandishing filthy-looking weapons.
They ordered him out.
With a shrug he stepped forward. They all pushed rudely past him into the elevator, which took them down to continue their search for him on the lower levels.
This was fun, thought Ford ... . -
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
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"I do not hate myself. In many ways, I am not altogether too bed." – Constant Mown
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If any of them had chosen to look out of the window at that moment, they would have been startled by the sight of Ford Prefect dropping past them to his certain death and flipping the finger at them.
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As you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
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.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 2, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, ch. 19 (1980)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/35143/
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I hear that Donald Trump thinks he could easily become an astronaut. I think we should support his ambition to go into space. Send him along with Elon Musk, Putin, Netanyahu, other billionaires, middle management, TV producers, telesales people, personnel officers, traffic wardens, public relations executives, reality TV stars, and all the other useless members of society. Build a Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship (if you know you know).
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I can't help thinking that somewhere in there Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz is about to read poetry.
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 12 (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/1464/
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see ….”
“You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”
“No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”
“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”
“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”
“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?”
“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”
“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”
“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 4, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, ch. 36 (1984)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/49165/
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Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) "It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished" Sale: $9.99 to $2.99 by Douglas Adams Rating: 4.4/5 (2,484 Reviews) #HitchhikersGuide #SciFi #Books #Humor #Adventure #DouglasAdams #BookSky
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 1, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, ch. 33 (1979)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/1465/
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
“So what’s the point of showing me something I can’t see?”
“So that you understand that just because you see something, it 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. It’s only what your senses bring to your attention.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 17 (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/83135/
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To the swivel-eyed lunatics wrecking the World to enrich yourselves when you already have more wealth than you could spend in a 1,000 lifetimes, I point you in the direction of the brilliant, but sadly deceased, Douglas Adams, who wrote about "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."
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I just told my kids (in a long winded and overly dramatic manner) the story of the supercomputer, Deep Thought. How it was set the monumental task of answering the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything, and that after eons of calculations it finally returned the answer:
42.
Kids were looking at me like I was a nutbag, and rolling their eyes.
Then I asked them....
"What's 6x7?"
They lost their goddam shit, and left for school giggling their heads off about it.
Gotta love that the classics can be integrated into #GenAlpha #BrainRot , and it at least enouraged the eldest to briefly consider reading the books 🤣😄
#DouglasAdams #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #HitchhikersGuide #kids #42 #SixSeven #67 #parenting
