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Chicken Soup, n.:
An ancient miracle drug containing equal parts of aureomycin, cocaine, interferon, and TLC. The only ailment chicken soup can't cure is neurotic dependence on one's mother.
-- Arthur Naiman ("Every Goy's Guide to Yiddish")
Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
-- Arthur Freed
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
"Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief."
-- Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur C. Clarke's Law :
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
-- Gen. Douglas MacArthur
"The BBC is like a sausage machine: whatever you put in one end, you get Dr. Who out the other".
-- Neil Gaiman
"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 from asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen."
-- Arthur coping with certain death as best as he can. (The High Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
"Eddies," said Ford, "in the space-time continuum."
"Ah," nodded Arthur, "Is he? Is he?"
(Arthur failing in his first lesson of galactic physics in four years)
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'
(Arthur experiencing the improbability drive at work)
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
"Hey, this is terrific!" Zaphod said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!"
"Terrific,' said Arthur.
"But don't you see what this means?"
"Yes. We are going to die."
"Yes, but apart from that."
"Apart from that?"
"It means we must be on to something!"
"How soon can we get off it?"
-- Zaphod and Arthur in a certain death situation over Magrathea.
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
-- James Thurber