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• 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...
• 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....
• One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard
  pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be so outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid....
• How do you feel?" "Like a military academy; bits of me keep on passing out.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• There must be some mistake," he said, "are you not a greater computer than the Milliard Gargantubrain which can count all the atoms in a star in a millisecond?
  "The Milliard Gargantubrain?" said Deep Thought with unconcealed contempt....
• Ha, but my life is but a box of wormgears.
  -- Marvin, the Paranoid Android -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Life is wasted on the living.
  -- Zaphod Beeblebrox IV, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", -- by Douglas Adam...
• Life...loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it.
  -- Marvin, the Paranoid Android -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...