Book: Mostly harmless

- Everything you see, hear, experience - it is your personal. You build around themselves their own Universe - that which is perceived. So the universe that you perceive belongs to one of you. Personally.

Although the seaside is ideal. The thing is that in the boundary condition between two elements, we feel better. Where the land meets the water. Where the land meets the sky. Where the body meets the spirit. Space with time. We are pleased to be on the border worlds, and from our one, look into the next one.

And just climbing up, convinced that he was wrong.

... the quality of advice you give someone, is measured by the life you lead yourself.

Hmmm, great thing - the entire Galaxy in front of him opened, and he lacks only two things - the planet where he was born, and the woman he loved!

One of the conditions of complete, perfect happiness, ' cried the robot, is the ability to share it with others.

In our time, decision makers often do not have time for these wives and children, so they rent them for the weekend.

- Organization? - roared Ford. - Organization?! Yeah how you dare us to call you, jerk!
- Absolutely precisely noticed. The word "organization" here is inappropriate. Zero organization, a surplus of initiative. Zero self-control, an overabundance of alcohol. And that's just the editor. What then are the subordinates?

It's one thing to be the life form that, like practicum, finds the most comfortable temperature in the range from 40,000 to 40.004, but quite another thing to belong to that species, passing their planet one point of the orbit is forced to wrap up in the skins of other species, so that later, during the passage of the planet another point of the orbit, to find that they are in their own skin hot.

... life will always be found, something to cling to.

No one and nothing can move faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news - they are known to be subject to their own laws.

A classic mistake that designers absolutely reliable systems - underestimating the ingenuity of clinical idiots.

It's time to stop worrying and start living.

- Then write. Let's say: "don't let me know what I need to know. Don't let me even find out what in the world is what I need to know. Don't let me know that I do not want to know what you do not want to know. Amen." Here. You're so deep down, pray about it, so why don't you do that out loud?
"Um," said Arthur. - Well, thanks...
- To this is attached another prayer, very important, ' continued the old Stylite, so mark that one too.
- OK.
- Means, so: "God, God, God..." - well, it's for hedging the more you repeat, the better... so: "God, God, God! Save me from the consequences of my previous prayers. Amen." For the most part, people get into trouble because of this additional prayer is forgotten.