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Life is wasted on the living. - Author object (563)

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay. - Author object (563)

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family. - Author object (563)

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training. - Author object (563)

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. - Author object (563)

All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that. - Author object (563)

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Author object (563)

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. - Author object (563)

For Children: You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple. The fried egg isn't properly a fried egg until it's been put in a frying pan and fried. This is something you wouldn't do to a Friday, of course, though you might do it on a Friday. You can also fry eggs on a Thursday, if you like, or on a cooker. It's all rather complicated, but it makes a kind of sense if you think about it for a while. - Author object (563)

Life, said Marvin dolefully, loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it. - Author object (563)

"Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Author object (563)

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. - Author object (563)

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. - Author object (563)

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that. - Author object (563)

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. - Author object (563)

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. - Author object (563)

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does. - Author object (563)

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. - Author object (563)

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Author object (152)

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. - Author object (152)