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Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.Douglas Adams
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Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.Douglas Adams
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You mean you've been in this same set of rooms here for... two hundred years?' murmured Richard. 'You'd think someone would notice, or think it was odd.'' Oh, that's one of the delights of the older Cambridge colleges, ' said Reg, 'everyone is so discreet. If we all went around mentioning what was odd about each other we'd be here till Christmas.Douglas Adams
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[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three words, an inherently self-contradictory expression, and that any sentence which contained such a phrase would be thereby rendered meaningless and could not, consequently, be advanced as part of an argument in favour of any given programme-scheduling strategy.Douglas Adams
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There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.Douglas Adams
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The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.Douglas Adams
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I'm very glad you asked me that, Mrs Rawlinson. The term `holistic' refers to my conviction that what we are concerned with here is the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. I do not concern myself with such petty things as fingerprint powder, telltale pieces of pocket fluff and inane footprints. I see the solution to each problem as being detectable in the pattern and web of the whole. The connections between causes and effects are often much more subtle and complex than we with our rough and ready understanding of the physical world might naturally suppose, Mrs Rawlinson."Let me give you an example. If you go to an acupuncturist with toothache he sticks a needle instead into your thigh. Do you know why he does that, Mrs Rawlinson?No, neither do I, Mrs Rawlinson, but we intend to find out. A pleasure talking to you, Mrs Rawlinson. Goodbye.Douglas Adams
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If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?Douglas Adams
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Don't you understand that 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
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Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that, ’ he said, ‘but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid.Douglas Adams
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She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment. Nothing terrible ever happened to him, though she was beginning to think that it was time it damn well did. If nothing terrible happened to him soon maybe she'd do it herself. Now there was an idea.Douglas Adams
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The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.Douglas Adams
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If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don't hurt it. Not even major surgery if it's done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make. .Douglas Adams
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The only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself.Douglas Adams