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" Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. "

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" People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in. "

" We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them. "

" I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. "

" Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark. "

" A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is 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 and repair. "

" He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. "

" Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? "

" We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever. "

" After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore. "

" I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it. "

" Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. "

" Life is wasted on the living. "

" I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity. "

" As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing. "

" I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas. "

" Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it. "

" The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. "

" For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. "

" I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on the outside! "

" You live and learn. At any rate, you live. "

" I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken. "

" The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. "

" There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.' "

" In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. "

" I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. "

" Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive. "

" I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. "