Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)

by Douglas Adams

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news,

I never quite went and found out for real. Never quite did it. Story of my life. Never quite did the real thing.

the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

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

“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.”)