Life, as many people have spotted, is, of course, terribly…

Life, as many people have spotted, is, of course, terribly unfair. For instance, the first time the Heart of Gold ever crossed the galaxy the massive improbability field it generated caused two-hundred-and-thirty-nine thousand lightly-fried eggs to materialise in a large, wobbly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had just died out from famine, except for one man who died of cholesterol-poisoning some weeks later. The Poghrils, always a pessimistic race, had a little riddle, the asking of which used to give them the only tiny twinges of pleasure they ever experienced. One Poghril would ask another Poghril, “Why is life like hanging upside down with your head in a bucket of hyena offal?” To which the second Poghril would reply “I don’t know, why is life like hanging upside down with your head in a bucket of hyena offal?” To which the first Poghril would reply, “I don’t know either - wretched isn’t it?” (Fit the Ninth)

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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. - View Quote Details on The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
“Perhaps I’m old and tired,” he continued, “but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.” —Slartibartfast - View Quote Details on “Perhaps I’m old and tired,” he continued, “but I always…
Yeah, well that’s a very sweet thought Trillian,” complained Zaphod, “but do you really think it’s wise under the circumstances? I mean, here we are on the run and everything, we must have the police of half the Galaxy after us by now, and we stop to pick up hitch hikers. OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah? - View Quote Details on Yeah, well that’s a very sweet thought Trillian,” complained Zaphod,…
[...] we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere… and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys. - View Quote Details on [...] we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent…
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?…
Many had seen it as clinching proof that the whole of known creation had finally gone bananas. - View Quote Details on Many had seen it as clinching proof that the whole…
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
“Very deep,” said Arthur, “you should send that in to the Reader’s Digest. They’ve got a page for people like you. - View Quote Details on "Very deep,"...">Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
“Very deep,”…
“What a depressingly stupid machine,” said Marvin and trudged away. - View Quote Details on “What a depressingly stupid machine,” said Marvin and trudged away.
“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…
Deep Thought: “The answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is…”
Philosophers:”Yes?…”
Deep Thought:”IS…”
Philosophers (slightly higher):”Yes?…”
Deep Thought: “IS…”
Philosophers (really high):”Yes?…”
Deep Thought: 42.
Philosopher 1:”We are gonna get lynched y’know that?” - View Quote Details on Deep Thought: “The answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything…