You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

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.

I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

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

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.