![]() ![]() A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.ġ0. 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?ĩ. “Funny,” he intoned funereally, “how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.”Ĩ. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”ħ. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. “You know,” said Arthur, “it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.”Ħ. ![]() The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.ĥ. “My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,” Ford muttered to himself, “and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.”Ĥ. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.ģ. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. “…it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you – daft as a bush, but very, very ravenous) you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”Ģ. In his best-known work, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, there’s also one of the most-known Douglas Adams quotes, wherein he explained the supreme utility of the towel in intergalactic travel: Today is Towel Day, an annual commemoration of the life and work of Douglas Adams, which we’re celebrating with the best Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quotes. Follow him on Twitter: All posts by Jeff O'Neal ![]() Jeff O'Neal is the executive editor of Book Riot and Panels. ![]()
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