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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

-- D.Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

The large yellow ships hung in the sky in exactly the same way that bricks don't.

-- D.Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Duleek: Sudden realisation, as you lie in bed waiting for the alarm to go off, that it should have gone off an hour ago.

-- Douglas Adams, "The Meaning of Liff"

Terry Pratchett

The light was misty and actinic, the sort of light to make Steven Spielberg reach for his copyright lawyer.

-- Terry Pratchett, "Equal Rites"

Time passed, which, basically, is its job.

-- Terry Pratchett, "Equal Rites"

What time´s sunset around here?
We normally manage to fit it in between night and day

-- Terry Pratchett, "Mort"

Isaac Asimov

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent

-- Isaac Asimov, "Foundation"

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

-- Isaac Asimov

The most exciting phrase in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."

-- Isaac Asimov

Stephen King

It's a long walk back to Eden, dear, so don't sweat the small stuff.

-- Stephen King, Insomnia

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."

-- Stephen King

Other science fiction writers

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

-- Arthur C. Clarke

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy ?

-- Ursula K. LeGuin

Created: 6 December, 2005 - Last changed: 6 December, 2005 - Comments (0)