One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes

But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing.

Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style