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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.

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.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

Why can’t people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?” said Arthur.
Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh.
“Forty-two!” he said with a malicious grin. “No, doesn’t work. Never mind.

Reality is frequently inaccurate.

In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Beppu (n.)

The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right … Or put it another way, "The future of computer power is pure simplicity."

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.

The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, and criminal courts in all areas of the Galaxy, and especially, where possible, the more corrupt ones, this.
The previous sentence makes sense. That is not the problem.
This is:
Change.
Read it through again and you'll get it.

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.