The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "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."

On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms.

"Ford," insisted Arthur, "I don't know if this sounds like a silly question, but what am I doing here?"
"Well you know that," said Ford. "I rescued you from the Earth."
"And what's happened to the Earth?"
"Ah. It's been demolished."
"Has it," said Arthur levelly.
"Yes. It just boiled away into space."
"Look," said Arthur, "I'm a bit upset about that."

It wasn't merely that their left hand didn't always know what their right hand was doing, so to speak; quite often their right hand had a pretty hazy notion as well.

“Funny,” he intoned funereally, “how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.”

At the center of an uncertain and possibly illusionary universe there would always be tea.

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

It wasn't the Captain's job to worry about that, though. It was his job to do his job, which was to do his job. If that led to a certain narrowness of vision and circularity of thought, then it wasn't his job to worry about such things. Any such things that came his way were referred to others, who had, in turn, other people to refer such things to.

“I don’t want to die now! I’ve still got a headache! I don’t want to go to heaven with a headache, I’d be all cross and wouldn’t enjoy it!”

"The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline."

Every now and then, the Sky People who built Clachtoll Broch descend for a game of Brochian Ultracricket on Stoer Green.
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Am 25. Mai feiern wir gleich zwei großartige Autoren: Mit dem #TowelDay zu Ehren von Douglas Adams und #WearTheLilacDay für Terry Pratchett . Ein Tag für Handtücher, Flieder und fantastische Geschichten!

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Happy Towel Day to all who celebrate!

These two small white toy mice have been on my desk since I bought them for Towel Day 2018.

Today is, for those unaware, “Towel Day.” Celebrating not only “the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have” but remembering one Douglas Noel Adams who left us 24 years ago.

So long and thanks for all the fish you cool frood!

Most readers of Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Transformations get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later editions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.

@HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2 Thus proving, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Deep Thought was, in fact, not a Large Language Model.

"Come," said Slartibartfast, "you are to meet the mice."

"Life," said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."

Hence a phrase that has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)