| Quotes |
Topic |
| Absurdity | 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. |
| Books First Lines | Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. |
| Experience | Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. |
| Humanity | Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. |
| Idiots | A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. |
| Illusion | Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. |
| Learning | Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. |
| Learning | Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. |
| Life | The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . Forty-two. |
| Life | Life is wasted on the living. |
| Uncertainty | We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. |
| Uniqueness | Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. |
| Universe | In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea. |
| Universe | Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened. |
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