The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

• In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal. This signal simply communicates an exact and almost pathetic sense of how far that being is from the place of his birth.
• 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing.'
• Funny how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.
• I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
• So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.
• 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.
• Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that if there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.
• The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases.

11/11/2011