Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there.

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. "...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side..." "No?" said Arthur grimly as he walked along beside him. "Really?" "Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens." "I can imagine.

One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It’s just an awful lot of 'us.'

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.