The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried. "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round. "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.