SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.

Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.

The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".

For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.