Thereโs no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so youโve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and itโs far too late to start making a fuss about it now... What do you mean youโve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heavenโs sake, mankind, itโs only four light years away, you know. Iโm sorry, but if you canโt be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, thatโs your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.
Douglas AdamsIt was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?
Douglas AdamsZaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.
Douglas AdamsThe Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they had been brought together not of their own volition or by simple coincidence, but by some curious perversion of physics- as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules
Douglas AdamsABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.
Douglas AdamsThe impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that.
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