Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)

You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen.

The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing. They teach classes in how to do this. They should teach classes in how to stop!

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?