"We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what normal is anyway."
~Heart of Gold computer, pg. 58
"Ford! There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out!"
~Arthur, pg. 59
"All right... The Answer tot he Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is forty-two."
~Deep Thought, pg. 120
"The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
~Notice on wall, pg. 174
"The people of Krikkit are, well, you know, they're just a bunch of real sweet guys, you know, who just happen to want to kill everybody. Hell, I feel the same way some mornings."
~His High Judgmental Supremacy Judiciary Pag, L.I.V.R (the Learned, Impartial, and Very Relaxed) Chairman of the Board of Judges at the Krikkit War Crimes Trial, pg. 379
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
~[Unknown], pg. 425
Arthur realized as he fell, giddily and sickeningly, that if he was going to hang around in the sky believing everything that the Italians had to say about physics when they couldn't even keep a simple tower straight, that they were in dead trouble, and he damn well did fall faster than Fenchurch.
~[Narrator], pg. 471
"Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though."
~[Narrator], pg. 631-634
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
~Ford Prefect, pg. 719
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong does, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
~[Unknown], pg. 720
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