Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up.

In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.

Life is wasted on the living.

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.