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• Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
  Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea ....
• Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
  Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea ....
• The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billio
  ine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it....
• This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was thi
  most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time....
• One of the interesting things about space is how dull it is - there's so much of it and so little in it.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• 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....
• I think you ought to know I'm feeling terribly depressed.
  -- Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Marvi...