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• Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in.
  ..At least being lost in space kept you busy....
• For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
  -- Ford Prefect,in Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_...
• Okay," the computer continued. "Here's an interesting little notion.
  Did you realize that most people's lives are governed by telephone numbers?...
• Have a nice diurnal anomaly." -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• 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....
• I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions.
  And its current conditions are not good. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• He started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this.
  Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers....
• 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...