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• Not only is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" a wholly remarkable book
  it is also a highly successful one - more popular than the "Celestial Home Care Omnibus", better selling than "Fifty-three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity", and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, "Where God Went Wrong", "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes" and "Who Is This God Person Anyway?...
• Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in.
  ..At least being lost in space kept you busy....
• 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 Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is forty-two.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• It's a mistake to try to understand machines...they only worry me.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Have a nice diurnal anomaly." -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• fudge factor n. [common] A value or parameter that is varied in an ad hoc way to produce the desired result.
  The terms `tolerance' and slop are also used, though these usually indicate a one-sided leeway, such as a buffer that is made larger than necessary because one isn't sure exactly how large it needs to be, and it is better to waste a little space than to lose completely for not having enough....
• fudge factor: n. A value or parameter that is varied in an ad hoc way to produce the desired result.
  The terms `tolerance' and {slop} are also used, though these usually indicate a one-sided leeway, such as a buffer that is made larger than necessary because one isn't sure exactly how large it needs to be, and it is better to waste a little space than to lose completely for not having enough....
• 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...