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July 16, 2023 - July 3, 2024
“The point is, you see,” said Ford, “that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.”
Strange but true. At least, I think it’s strange,” he added, “and I am assured that it’s true.”
it meant that most of the actual work got done by any passing stranger who happened to wander into the empty offices of an afternoon and saw something worth doing.
There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.
“it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.
The reason they are not universes is that any given universe is not actually a thing as such, but is just a way of looking at what is technically known as the WSOGMM, or Whole Sort of General Mish Mash. The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash doesn’t actually exist either, but is just the sum total of all the different ways there would be of looking at it if it did.
‘Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.’
He should have known it was all wrong the moment they started hanging grand pianos over the sea-monster pool in the atrium.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
The frightening thing about the Vogons was their absolute mindless determination to do whatever mindless thing it was they were determined to do.
