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Very strange people, physicists," he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool

He smiled the smile that Zaphod had wanted to hit and this time Zaphod hit it.

This Introduction to the Introduction to the New Edition is a highly significant one in the history of Introductions. Its presence on these pages means that this book has achieved the World Record for the Number of Introductions in a Book of This Nature.

The daylight shouldered its way in like a squad of policemen and did a lot of what's-all-thising around the room, which, like the bedroom, would have presented anyone of an aesthetic disposition with difficulties.

The officer's next point was that I wasn't in the universe, I was in England, a point that has been made to me before.

What the photon is it?" "Oh, just some five-million-year-old tape that's being broadcast at us." "A what? A recording?

What? Excuse me? "La, a note to follow so . . ." What kind of lame excuse for a line is that? Well, it's obvious what kind of line it is. It's a placeholder.

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.

once described by Eccentrica Gallumbits as the Best Bang since the Big One

The man, he believed with an instant effortlessness which would have impressed even a Scientologist, must be a God of some kind to arouse such fervour.

A slow stupefied silence crept over the men as they stared at the computer and then at each other.

I present you with a simple choice! Either die in the vacuum of space, or …" he paused for melodramatic effect, "tell me how good you thought my poem was!

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.

Are you trying to tell me," said Arthur, slowly and with control, "that you originally . . . made the Earth?

I figure this," said Zaphod. "Whatever happened to my mind, I did it. And I did it in such a way that it wouldn't be detected by the Government screening tests.

Her laughter seemed to discharge something in the atmosphere. From somewhere at the back of the crowd a single voice started to sing a tune that would have enabled Paul McCartney, had he written it, to buy the world.

The sun was beginning to dry out the mud that Arthur lay in.

But can we trust him?" he said. "Myself I'd trust him to the end of the Earth," said Ford.

I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

Very strange people, physicists, he said as soon as they were outside again. In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.

He seemed nervous of the expectant awed hush, He cleared his throat.

In order that some sense of mystery should still be preserved, no revelation will yet be made concerning whose upper arm sustains the bruise. This fact may safely be made the subject of suspense since it is of no significance whatsoever.

him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.