For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number.” “Er, five,” said the mattress. “Wrong,” said Marvin. “You see?

WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there.