"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
Context: After seven and a half million years of thought, the supercomputer Deep Thought gives its Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything.
Source: Chapter 27
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?
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is."
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had…
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.