Dave

“If “the Nature Cruise of the Century” had come off as planned, the division of duties between the Captain and his first mate would have been typical of the management of so many organizations a million years ago, with the nominal leader specializing in sociable balderdash, and with the supposed second-in-command burdened with the responsibility of understanding how things really worked, and what was really going on.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

“Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I decided to call him Ford Prefect. (This was a joke that missed American audiences entirely, of course, since they had never heard of the rather oddly named little car, and many thought it was a typing error for Perfect.) I explained in the text that the minimal research my alien character had done before arriving on this planet had led him to think that this name would be “nicely inconspicuous.” He had simply mistaken the dominant life form.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy