We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."

"Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood..."

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."

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