If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would actually respond to the audience, rather than just having the audience respond to the storyteller. I had an enormous amount of fun, actually, working on that.

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

'The difficulty with this conversation,' said Arthur after a sort of pondering look had crawled slowly across his face like a mountaineer negotiating a tricky outcrop, 'is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.'