The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Highlights
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
Chapter 3 (Location 444)
If they don’t keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
Chapter 5 (Location 611)
the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
Chapter 6 (Location 748)
as if relationships between people were susceptible to the same laws that governed the relationships between atoms and molecules.
Chapter 14 (Location 1318)
He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Chapter 14 (Location 1333)
So long and thanks for all the fish.
Chapter 23 (Location 1838)
I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question is.”
Chapter 28 (Location 2099)
Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”
Chapter 30 (Location 2217)
“Because there are some things you have to do even if you are an enlightened liberal cop who knows all about sensitivity and everything!”
Chapter 32 (Location 2394)
His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.
Notes (Location 2485)