Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

Some people treatloyalty as a lamp:they think, they canjust switch it on/offand believe, you won't noticethe difference...

Trouble brings experience and experience brings wisdom.

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

"Good" people are those who don't hold in the thoughts, but find proper outlets like writing, painting, music, etc.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'