"'Please do not be alarmed,' it said, 'by anything you see or hear around you. You..."

"'Please do not be alarmed,' it said, 'by anything you see or hear around you. You are bound to feel some initial ill effects as you have been rescued from certain death at an improbability level of two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand to one against—possibly much higher. We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway. Thank you.'"

- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy