Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet

It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.

Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

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.

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.