Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen. [...] Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

"Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered."