For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.

You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

"What's up?" "I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there."