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„Azok az emberek, akik szinte egyedülálló módon képesek tanulni mások tapasztalataiból, figyelemre méltóak az erre való látszólagos hajlandóságuk miatt is.”

„A technológia egy olyan szó, amely olyasmit ír le, ami még nem működik.”

„A Kétség Lazaca (2002)”

„Isten ma már nem magyarázat semmire, hanem inkább olyasvalamivé vált, aminek önmagában van szüksége elképesztő mennyiségű magyarázatra.”

„A 42-es szám egy szép szám, amit hazavihetsz és bemutathatsz a családodnak.”

„Ritkán kötök ott ki, ahová menni szándékoztam, de gyakran ott találom magam, ahol szükség van a jelenlétemre.”

„Nem vagyok hajlandó válaszolni erre a kérdésre, azért mert nemtudom a választ.”

„Szeretem a határidőket. Szeretem azt a suhanó hangot, amelyet ki adnak mikor elrepülnek melletem.”

“People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.”

“Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.”

“That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.”

“The door was the way to… to… The Door was The Way.”

“The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.”

“It was his subconscious which told him this — that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.”

“I don't go to mythical places with strange men.”

“I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.”

“Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n.
One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.”

“Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.”

“Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.”

“Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”

“A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.”

“And so the Universe ended.”

“Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.”

“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.”

“Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.”

“… and the Universe,… will explode later for your pleasure.”

“The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.”

“The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.”

“I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.”

“Beauty doesn't have to beanything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto?”

“We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.”

“Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.”

“It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.”

“This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.”

“Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.”

“Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”

“Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila.”