Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot"That young girl," Marvin added unexpectedly, "is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting."
"Delay?" Zaphod cried. "Have you seen the world outside this ship? It's a wasteland, a desert. Civilization's been and gone, man. There are no lemon-soaked paper napkins on the way from anywhere."
"The statistical likelihood," continued the autopilot primly, "is that other civilizations will arise. There will one day be lemon-soaked paper napkins. Till then there will be a short delay. Please return to your seat."
Marvin: Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust or just fall apart where I'm standing?
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.
Annette SchwindtIf a sunbeam had ever managed to slink this far into the justice complex of Argabuthon it would have turned around and slunk straight back out again.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
WIST QuotationsA quotation from Douglas Adams
It was his subconscious which told him this — that infuriating part of a person’s brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Dirk Gently, No. 2, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 17 (1988)
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Allen Shull 
There’s a comic going around on Mastodon that I don’t want to link to because it’s nice and I like it. But it made me realize that once again, #DouglasAdams Saw All This Coming™️
AI is a gigantic waste of time that absorbs every resource of a planet and gives a ridiculous answer? That’s Deep Thought and 42. What’s the solution? Clearly an even bigger computer. Clearly, do it again. And it gets messed up inevitably, and it doesn’t matter inevitably, and even if it worked it still wouldn’t.
"I will thank you," said the Hitchhiker's Guide Mk II, "to mind your language. I am fully programmed to take offense."