The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

How many roads must a man walk down?

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.