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• effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
  -- 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_...
• Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in.
  ..At least being lost in space kept you busy....
• Okay," the computer continued. "Here's an interesting little notion.
  Did you realize that most people's lives are governed by telephone numbers?...
• 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...
• It's a bird! It's a plane! It's superman! No, it's bad news, and it flies faster than a speeding bullet, faster than a supersonic plane, faster even than superman.
  It is like a fast arrow, taking the most direct and speediest route....
• For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• Have a nice diurnal anomaly." -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.
  People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there....