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• Even light, which travels so fast that it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.
  -- 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...
• 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?...
• Have a nice diurnal anomaly." -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Making it up? Why should I want to make anything up?
  Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it....
• 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....
• How can I tell...that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Ha, but my life is but a box of wormgears.
  -- Marvin, the Paranoid Android -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• I'm not going to be anybody's puppet, particularly not my own.
  -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...