"This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time."
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"I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end"."
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"When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch."
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"A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment."
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"What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
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"We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win."
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"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground."
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"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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"Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting "Gotcha". It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it.' 'Why not?' 'Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end."
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"One is never alone with a rubber duck."
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"and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys."
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"Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied."
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"I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?"
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"It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears."
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"This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
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"When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling pretty pleased with yourself and then accidently change down from fourth to first instead of third thus making your engine leap out of your hood in a rather ugly mess, it tends to throw you off stride in much the same way that this remark threw Ford Prefect off his."
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"There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole."
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"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose."
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"Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots"
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"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
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