Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot"You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
"Er, five," said the mattress.
"Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?"
The mattress was much impressed by this and realized that it was in the presence of a not unremarkable mind.
WIST QuotationsA quotation from Douglas Adams
“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 mean to say it’s not there. It’s only what your senses bring to your attention.”
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 17 (1992)
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Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker's Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 17 (1992) | WIST Quotations
"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 mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your…
Ron RevogIch finde das Konzept von Arthur Dent prinzipiell gar nicht schlecht und schlüssig:
Wenn man fliegen will, muss man nur stürzen und dabei an der Erde vorbei fallen.
Aber es will mir nicht recht gelingen.
The ship was rocking and swaying sickeningly as Ford and Zaphod tried to wrest control from the autopilot. The engines howled and whined like tired children in a supermarket.
In a mute embrace, they drifted up till they were swimming among the misty wraiths of moisture that you can see feathering around the wings of an airplane but can never feel because you are sitting warm inside the stuffy airplane and looking through the little scratchy Plexiglas window while somebody else's son tries patiently to pour warm milk into your shirt.
Paul Arnheim-ProjektYou are absoeffinglutely right, @[email protected]!
Thanks for the laugh:)
Speaking of airports; I hope you'll enjoy this #DouglasAdams quote (www.goodreads.com/quotes/32058...):
#ALText: #strongerTogether with #inclusion
#Boycott men's #FIFAWorldcup & #OlympicGames!
#Resist!
#SaveDemocracy!
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The Ident-I-Eeze encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all-purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and it therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.
"Concentrate," hissed Zaphod, "on his name."
"What is it?" asked Arthur.
"Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth."
"What?"
"Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth. Concentrate!"
"The Fourth?"
"Yeah. Listen, I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox, my father was Zaphod Beeblebrox the Second, my grandfather Zaphod Beeblebrox the Third..."
"What?"
"There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate!"
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat, and the best way to irritate him is to feed his grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.