The oracle hit himself on the thumb and began speaking…

The oracle hit himself on the thumb and began speaking in tongues. - The oracle as he is hammering a nail

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The trouble with most forms of transport, he thought, is basically one of them not being worth all the bother. On Earth – when there had been an Earth, before it was demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass – the problem had been with cars. The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm’s way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea, all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to another – particularly when the place you arrived at had probably become, as a result of this, very similar to the place you had left, i.e. covered with tar, full of smoke and short of fish. - View Quote Details on The trouble with most forms of transport, he thought, is…
Sorry, did I say something wrong?” said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. “Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God I’m so depressed. Here’s another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don’t talk to me about life. - View Quote Details on Sorry, did I say something wrong?” said Marvin, dragging himself…
“Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?”
“How much?” said Arthur.
“None at all,” said Mr Prosser. - View Quote Details on “Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how…
Anything that happens, happens. - View Quote Details on Anything that happens, happens.
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…
“Where God Went Wrong”, “Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes”, “Who is this God Person Anyway?”, and “Well That About Wraps It Up for God”. - The four books on God by ‘Oolon Colluphid’ - View Quote Details on “Where God Went Wrong”, “Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes”,…
We live in strange times.
We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say thing like, “Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How’s Carol?” involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the comtemplation of the chaos through which they see the and world tumble. So give your kid a break, okay? - c. ?; Extract from Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demented Universe - View Quote Details on We live in strange times.
We also live in strange places:…
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. - View Quote Details on It is known that there are an infinite number of…
Ford: “It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.”
Arthur: “What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”
Ford: “You ask a glass of water.” - View Quote Details on Arthur: "What's so unpleasant...">Ford: “It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.”
Arthur: “What’s so unpleasant…
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…