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• Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place.
  And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans....
• The Guide says there is an art to flying,' said Ford,`or at least a knack.
  The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss....
• In this replacement Earth we're building they've given me Africa to do and of course I'm doing it with all fjords again because I happen to like them
  and I'm old-fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent....
• But are you not, he said, a more fiendish disputant than the Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler of Ciceronicus Twelve, the Magic and Indefatigable?
  The Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler, said Deep Thought, thoroughly rolling the r's, could talk all four legs off an Arcturan Mega-Donkey -- but only I could persuade it to go for a walk afterward....
• It's a mistake to try to understand machines...they only worry me.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• This was the gist of the notice. It said "The Guide is definitive.
  Reality is frequently inaccurate." This has lead to some interesting consequences....
• You think you've got problems," said Marvin, the paranoid human-hating robot, as if he was addressing a newly occupied coffin, "what are you supposed to do if you ARE a manically depressed robot?
  No, don't bother to answer that, I'm fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer....
• He started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this.
  Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers....
• So this is it," said Arthur, "we are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except.
  ..no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision....