I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

Life is wasted on the living.

Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was."Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

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

Ow! My brains!

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.

And so the Universe ended.

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

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

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

God's Final Message to His Creation:'We apologize for the inconvenience.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

If you've done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?