“Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin.
"And what happened?" pressed Ford.
"It committed suicide," said Marvin and stalked off back to the Heart of Gold.”
― The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"And what happened?" pressed Ford.
"It committed suicide," said Marvin and stalked off back to the Heart of Gold.”
― The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”
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“God's Final Message to His Creation:
'We apologize for the inconvenience.”
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
'We apologize for the inconvenience.”
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
― Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die."
His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up.
After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up.
After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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