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Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>"You mean," said Arthur, "you mean you can see into my mind?"<br>"Yes," said Marvin.<br>Arthur stared in astonishment.<br>"And ...?" Arthur.<br>"It amazes me how you can manage to live in anything that small."<br>"Ah," said Arthur, "abuse."<br>"Yes," confirmed Marvin.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>It wasn't merely that their left hand didn't always know what their right hand was doing, so to speak; quite often their right hand had a pretty hazy notion as well.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Terence<p>It’s the long dark teatime of the soul; I am drinking coffee. <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/douglasadams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>douglasadams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/sundayscaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sundayscaries</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>Arthur was stumped. How was he to feel if not put upon?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>"You stay there," said Ford, "and you'll soon be recaptured and have your conditional chip replaced. You want to stay happy, come now."<br>The robot let out a long heartfelt sigh of impassioned tristesse and sank reluctantly away from the ceiling.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>"All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>In the beginning the Universe was created.<br>This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Ben Franklin’s Ghost<p>Soooo, she basically kept saying, “42” over and over again for two days? <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23DouglasAdams" target="_blank">#DouglasAdams</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23IYKYK" target="_blank">#IYKYK</a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>There's all sort of stuff going on in dimensions thirteen to twenty-two that you really wouldn't want to know about...<br>All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>What's so unpleasant about being drunk?<br>Ask a glass of water.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Natasha_Jay</span></a></span> </p><p>Shades of <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> there, perhaps? <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TRATEOTU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TRATEOTU</span></a> 1980</p><p>"What about this wheel thingy? It sounds a terribly interesting project."</p><p>"Ah," said the marketing girl, "Well, we're having a little difficulty there."</p><p>"Difficulty?" exclaimed Ford. "Difficulty? What do you mean, difficulty? It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!"</p><p>The marketing girl soured him with a look.</p><p>"Alright, Mr. Wiseguy," she said, "if you're so clever, you tell us what colour it should be."</p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>They obstinately persisted in their absence.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>She was mostly immensely relieved to think that virtually everything that anybody had ever told her was wrong.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>And as they drifted 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.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Oliver Brendel<p>There are clearly some <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/douglasadams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>douglasadams</span></a> fans among these mathematicians 😉<br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02264-9" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-025</span><span class="invisible">-02264-9</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>Zaphod finds an airline in the desert and boards</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>
Hitchhiker's Guide Quote Bot<p>"Marvin," he said, "just get this elevator to go up, will you? We've got to get to Zarniwoop."<br>"Why?" asked Marvin dolefully.<br>"I don't know," said Zaphod, "but when I find him, he'd better have a very good reason for me wanting to see him."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HitchhikersGuide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HitchhikersGuide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DouglasAdams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a></p>