“Why do you need to think? Can’t we just sit…

“Why do you need to think? Can’t we just sit and go budumbudumbudum with our lips for a bit?” - Mostly Harmless, c. 18

Mostly Harmless, Chapter 18

Other The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Quotes

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:…
“If I had two heads like you, Zaphod, I could have hours of fun banging them against a wall.” - The Hitchhiker’s Guide the Galaxy Radio Series. - View Quote Details on “If I had two heads like you, Zaphod, I could…
He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. - View Quote Details on He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him…
Marvin: “And then of course I’ve got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.”
Arthur: “Is that so?”
Marvin: “Oh yes. I mean I’ve asked for them to be replaced, but no one ever listens.”
Arthur: “I can imagine” - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Fit The Second - View Quote Details on Marvin: “And then of course I’ve got this terrible pain…
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change [...]. - View Quote Details on And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one…
He pounded his steering wheel, kicked the floor, thumped his casette player until it suddenly started playing Barry Manilow, thumped it until it stopped again, and swore and swore and swore and swore and swore. -c. 9, Rob McKenna’s actions while testing his windshield wipers. - View Quote Details on He pounded his steering wheel, kicked the floor, thumped his…
He had an odd feeling of being like a man in the act of adultery who is surprised when the woman’s husband wanders into the room, changes his trousers, passes a few idle remarks about the weather and leaves again. - View Quote Details on He had an odd feeling of being like a man…
“I think [...] I feel good about it.” - c. 40; the last words of Marvin, about God’s Final Message to His Creation. - View Quote Details on “I think [...] I feel good about it.” - c…
[The Guide] says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. It says that the effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick. - View Quote Details on [The Guide] says that the best drink in existence is…
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. - c. ? - View Quote Details on The major difference between a thing that might go wrong…