The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with.


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The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best wa...
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Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable its...
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Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
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A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the s...
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First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with AS...
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind...
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The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!
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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
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Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those s...
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you ...
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I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. ...
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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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Life? Don't talk to me about life!
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The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angr...
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss
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Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
The second worst is that of the Az...
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Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
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In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lo...
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy...
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The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a dou...
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O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to...
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Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much......
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The Answer to the Great Question Of.....Life, the Universe and Everything.....(is) Forty-two.
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
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One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
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Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, though...
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
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Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys ...
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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sen...
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Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have...
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It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
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In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and...
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was...
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Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of...
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may...
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The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existenc...
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The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
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Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
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The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a...
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My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' h...
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Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics...
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He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non...
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