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• 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...
• For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Even light, which travels so fast that it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Hey, kid, you just saved our lives, you know that?" "Oh, well, it was nothing really.
  ..." "Was it? Oh well, forget it then." -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Have a nice diurnal anomaly." -- 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...
• Life...loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it.
  -- Marvin, the Paranoid Android -- 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....
• How do you feel?" "Like a military academy; bits of me keep on passing out.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...