"How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out."
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"I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer."
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"There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right."
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"How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?"
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"All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was." "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that."
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"It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working."
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"If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner..." "Yeah?" "Please don't hesitate to get lost."
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"Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason."
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"See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that."
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"Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that."
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"There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do."
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"Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for."
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"The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be."
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"He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wing spans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. Unfortunately, he discovered, once you have learnt birdspeak you quickly come to realize that the air is full of it the whole time, just inane bird chatter. There is no getting away from it."
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""Would you like to see the menu?" he said. "Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?" [...] "Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body?""
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"My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be."
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"Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds."
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"It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them."
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"How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present."
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"The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%."
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