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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of five millio
  ine hundred and seventy-three thousand, five hundred and nine pages, 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....
• How can I tell...that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• One of the interesting things about space is how dull it is - there's so much of it and so little in it.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• What a wonderfully exciting cough! Do you mind if I join you?
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Well, here's something to occupy you and keep your mind off things.
  -It won't work, I have an exceptionally large mind....
• What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue.
  Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far....
• Not only is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" a wholly remarkable book
  it is also a highly successful one - more popular than the "Celestial Home Care Omnibus", better selling than "Fifty-three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity", and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, "Where God Went Wrong", "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes" and "Who Is This God Person Anyway?...
• consult guide about Zaphod Beeblebrox The Guide checks through its Sub-Etha-Net database and eventually comes up with the following entry
  Zaphod Beeblebrox is the current President of the Galaxy....
• If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
  -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...