I. Frost's Selected Quotations

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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I get all my ideas from a mail order company in Indianapolis. Although I'm not prepared to give you their name.
Chat, June 17, 1998

It's a few years since I've written a novel and I think we're moving from a position where I have a publisher hav[ing] a contract with me to having a contract on me.
Games Mania Interview

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.
SCO Forum 97

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

There is a theory that states: " If anyone finds out what the universe is for it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable."
There is another theory that states: " This has already happened."

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

" He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
Douglas Adams" I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
Douglas Adams

" Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to."
Douglas Adams,From Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

" We need to be childish in order to understand. Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see."
Douglas Adams,From Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

" Even the sceptical mind must be prepared to accept the unacceptable when there is no alternative. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands."
From Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

" The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance."
From The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

" Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through."
From The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
From The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Argument for the non-existence of God:
" 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic."
From The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

" Why stop now just when I'm hating it?"
From Life, the Universe and Everything

" If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.'"
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

" In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were REAL men, women were REAL women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri planet were REAL small furry creatures from Aplha Centauri planet'"
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

" There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are `Why are people born?' `Why do they die?' `Why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?'"
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
`I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month.
I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.'"
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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BOOK :" 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 believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons."
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

BOOK :" What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground
underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer."
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

" `That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid
meeting.'"
Marvin's first ever compliment about anybody.

" When it's fall in New York, the air smells as if someone's been frying goats in it, and if you are keen to breathe the best plan is to open a window and stick your head in a building."
So Long, and Thanks for all thFish

" The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing
that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go
wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish