When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!

He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.

The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.