Hitchhiker Quotes

#1. People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

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#2. As Douglas Adams wryly observed in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes!

Marcus Chown

#3. Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

Piers Anthony

#4. I've read the 'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy' at least once a year since I was twelve years old.

Sean Biggerstaff

#5. Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.

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#6. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

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#7. I loved her," Robinson said. "And I loved the sick girl you were when I met you, and I loved the good student and the bad driver. I loved the car thief, the hitchhiker, the quoter of novels I haven't read, and the hater of Slim Jims ... Axi Moore, I've loved every you there ever was.

James Patterson

#8. The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

John Waters

#9. Samantha : Doesn't seem like you can believe in much anymore.
Hitchhiker: You can believe in yourself. ..If you're lucky.

Harriet Grey

#10. Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That's how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#11. A cup of tea would restore my normality.
[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]

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#12. Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It had some advice to offer on drunkenness.
"Go to it," it said, "and good luck.

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#13. then sat down to do what every galactic hitchhiker ends up spending most of his time doing. They waited for a flying saucer to come by.

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#14. I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

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#15. The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub-meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around

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#16. I'm sitting, waiting to get on the freeway, and I'm waiting my ass off. I look over at the side of the road, and there's a hitchhiker with a sign and it says, 'Pick me up, and you can drive in the carpool lane.' I got to tell you, he was kind of smelly, but he was a good conversationalist.

Doug Benson

#17. The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred percent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable.

Eoin Colfer

#18. I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne.

Stephen Harper

#19. An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

Mo Willems

#20. I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style

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#21. This police force consisted--of slaves. The free Athenian regarded this police duty as so degrading that he preferred being arrested by an armed slave rather than lending himself to such an ignominious service.

Friedrich Engels

#22. I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

Jamie Zawinski

#23. Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.

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#24. He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.

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#25. The essence of sin is "I do not want to have God in my life." And the essence of God's judicial wrath is to give us what we have asked for.

Timothy Keller

#26. I don't know, apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all.

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#27. How many roads must a man walk down?

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#28. Let me guess," the frog interrupted,"Like every other human explored I've even met, you want to know the meaning of life."
"I didn't-"
"The answer's forty-four. The machine was off by two" the frog snapped, "Believe me, it makes a world of difference...

Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

#29. I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

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

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#31. Immigration is America's No. 1 economic asset. The rest of the world can't do that. We can have every smart person we want, every high-skilled person we want.

Grover Norquist

#32. Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen ...

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#33. Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

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