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“42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.”

“The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.”

“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 point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.”

“Perhaps I'm old and tired, 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.”

“Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.”

“Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.”

“One is never alone with a rubber duck.”

“We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.”

“Ow! My brains!”

“He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.”

“I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.”

“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”

“My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first”

“What's up?" [asked Ford. ]
"I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there.”

“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.”

“Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)”

“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”

“The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place, and continues to do so today.”