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• effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
  -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in an infinitely complex and confusing Universe
  for though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does at least make the reassuring claim, that where it is inaccurate it is at least DEFINITIVELY inaccurate....
• Don't Panic. -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because he has achieved so much -- the wheel
  New York, wars and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time....
• There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here
  it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable....
• R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being and not being more than, say, five minutes late.
  It is therefore clearly an almost infinitely variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed taken as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor....
• It is an important and popular fact that things are not always as they seem.
  -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• consult guide about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Guide checks through its Sub-Etha-Net database and eventually comes up with the following entry
  The Hitchhiker's Guide is a wholly remarkable product....