‘Well, he can’t do it again, surely! This time he’ll start on time, or he’ll have a schedule and stick to it…’ “But he didn’t. The whole thing was tremendously late, and Douglas was getting into a bit of a state about it because it was
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“(“Infinity” is not a number; it is a metaphysical hang-up.)”
― The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes
― The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes
“Take a simple pocket pen, so cheap that they are given away as advertising. Back of it lie several sorts of chemists, metallurgists, synthetic polymer experts, mechanical engineers, extrusion presses, computer programmers, computers, computer technicians, toolmakers, electrical engineers, a planet-wide petroleum industry, five or more sorts of mines with mining engineers, geologists, miners, railroads, steamships, production engineers, management specialists, merchandizing psychologists—et cetera to a splitting headache. It is impossible even to list the myriad special skills that underlie even the most trivial trade item of our enormously complex and interdependent industrial web.”
― The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes
― The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes
“Isn’t it enough to see that the garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“The most commonly heard plea from American audiences is ‘Don’t let them Americanise it! We get all sorts of pabulum over here…!”
― Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“If a table has four legs, which one can you afford to throw away?”
― The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes
― The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Parallel Novel About Parallel Universes
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