Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite…

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. - (From the TV Series, 1st Episode)

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Look,” said Zaphod, “I’m up to here with cool, OK? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis. - View Quote Details on Look,” said Zaphod, “I’m up to here with cool, OK?…
Zaphod: “Can it Trillian, I’m trying to die with dignity.”
Marvin: “I’m just trying to die.” - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Fit The Sixth - View Quote Details on Zaphod: “Can it Trillian, I’m trying to die with dignity.”…
[...] the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.
“Freedom,” he said aloud.
Trillian came on to the bridge at that point and said several enthusiastic things on the subject of freedom.
“I can’t cope with it,” Zaphod said darkly, and sent a third drink down to see why the second hadn’t yet reported on the condition of the first. He looked uncertainly at both of her and preferred the one on the right.
He poured a drink down his other throat with the plan that it would head the previous one off at the pass, join forces with it, and together they would get the second to pull itself together. Then all three would go off in search of the first, give it a good talking to and maybe a bit of a sing as well.
He felt uncertain as to whether the fourth drink had understood all that, so he sent down a fifth to explain the plan more fully and a sixth for moral support. - View Quote Details on [...] the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his…
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,” Ford muttered to himself, “and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes. - View Quote Details on My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland…
Six pints of bitter,” said Ford Prefect to the barman of the Horse and Groom. “And quickly please, the world’s about to end. - View Quote Details on Six pints of bitter,” said Ford Prefect to the barman…
Old woman Oracle: “Can you help me pull out the photocopier?”
Arthur: “What?”
OWO: “The photocopier. It’s solar-powered, but I have to keep it in the cave so the birds don’t shit on it.” - c. ? - View Quote Details on Old woman Oracle: “Can you help me pull out the…
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [...] says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that ‘it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.’
‘In other words - and this is the rock solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation’s Galaxy-wide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.’ - c. 35 - View Quote Details on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [...] says of the…
Making it up?” said Marvin, swivelling his head in a parody of astonishment, “Why should I want to make anything up? Life’s bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it. - View Quote Details on Making it up?” said Marvin, swivelling his head in a…
“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?”
The mattress was much impressed by this and realized that it was in the presence of a not unremarkable mind. - View Quote Details on “You may not instantly see why I bring the subject…
Concentrate,” hissed Zaphod, “on his name.”
“What is it?” asked Arthur.
“Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth.”
“What?”
“Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth. Concentrate!”
“The Fourth?”
“Yeah. Listen, I’m Zaphod Beeblebrox, my father was Zaphod Beeblebrox the Second, my grandfather Zaphod Beeblebrox the Third…”
“What?”
“There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate! - View Quote Details on "What is it?"...">Concentrate,” hissed Zaphod, “on his name.”
“What is it?”…