quotes

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

"On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had 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. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons."

"[He] was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher, or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."

"To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone capable of getting themselves made President should by no means be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."

"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?"


"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...because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality that like leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know they won't give up. They'll get you in the end." –Ford Prefect

"Does it worry you that you don't talk any kind of sense?" –Agda

"We have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem." –Trillian