E' sbagliato pensare di risolvere grossi problemi con il solo ausilio delle patate fritte.

A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff.

You are a driver," he said, "and I use the word in the loosest possible sense, i.e.meaning merely somebody who occupies the driving seat of what I will for themoment call - but I use the term strictly without prejudice - a car while it isproceeding along the road, of stupendous, I would even say verging on thesuperhuman, lack of skill. Do you catch my drift?

Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you travelled. This will come to you as a profound personal shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

Are you suggesting that those men were in my employ?" "That's exactly what I'm suggesting." "I don't know if you noticed but those men were pointing a gun at me. I'm sorry, but if anyone in my employ did that, I'd sack them on the spot.

OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool approaching critical mass, this is... this is... total vocabulary failure!

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This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be the perfect time to disembark.

And as they drifter up their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.Physics shook its head and, looking the other way, concentrated on keeping the cards going along the Euston Road and out over towards the Westway flyover, on keeping the street lights lit and on making sure that when somebody on Baker Street dropped a cheeseburger it went splat on the ground.