Quotes About Perspective

But naturally my shoulder, sir,' mooed the animal contentedly, 'nobody else's is mine to offer.

This planet has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

Perhaps I'm old and tired,' he continued, 'but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

PRODO -explicó- es algo que no podemos ver, que no distinguimos o que nuestra mente no nos deja observar porque creemos que es un problema de otro. Eso es lo que significa PRODO. Problema de Otro. El cerebro se limita solamente a perfilarlo, es como un punto ciego. Si se mira directamente no se ve, a menos que se sepa qué es exactamente. La única esperanza consiste en percibirlo por sorpresa con el rabillo del ojo.

Do you think they're…" "Where they are, how they are, there's no way we can know and no way we can do anything about it. Do what I do." "What?" "Don't think about it.

Ä°lk sav?n sahipleri meselenin bu olmad???n? söylüyorlard?. Meselenin ne olduÄŸuna tam olarak emin deÄŸillerdi, ama bu olmad???n? biliyorlard?.

So what's the point of showing me something I can't see? So that you understand that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't meant to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

It's not so much an afterlife,' said Arthur, 'more a sort of après vie.

La scienza ha raggiunto traguardi meravigliosi, certo, ma io preferirei essere felice piuttosto che avere sempre ragione.

That's cool,' said Zaphod, 'we'll meet the meat.

Birinin verdiÄŸi tavsiyenin kalitesini anlamak için o kiÅŸinin yaÅŸam?na bakmak gerekir.

I didn't have a copy of Europe on Five Dollars a Day (as it then was) because I wasn't in that financial league.

All right," said Ford, "just stop panicking!

As dramatic seas of light went, it was fine, but light is meant to illuminate something, and having driven through what this particularly dramatic sea of light was illuminating they didn't think much of it.

Poor Arthur, you're not really cut out for this life, are you?" "You call this life?" "You're beginning to sound like Marvin." "Marvin's the clearest thinker I know.

The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife. Trin

Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Arthur didn't notice that the men were running from the bulldozers; he didn't notice that Mr Prosser was staring hectically into the sky. What Mr Prosser had noticed was that huge yellow somethings were screaming through the cluds, impossibly huge somethings.

What's up? I don't know, said Marvin. I've never been there.

I don't want to die now! I've got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!

Bu büyüklükteki bir evrende eÄŸer yaÅŸam var olacaksa, kiÅŸinin orant? duygusu diye bir lüksü kald?ramayaca??n? kesin olarak kan?tlamas?yd?.

We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

It's unpleasantly like being drunk.' 'What's so unpleasant about being drunk?' 'You ask a glass of water.