"Set the gearshift to the high gear of your soul,
You've got to run like an antelope out of control."
-- The Dude of Life

"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things,
you sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you
is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."
-- Pooh

"Well, hello Mr. Fancy Pants!
I got news for you, pal.
You ain't leading but two things right now; jack and shit.
And Jack left town."
-- Ash, Army of Darkness (1993)

"Don't Panic!"
-- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the
Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly
insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so
amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea..."
--Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for
and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by
something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another that states that this has already happened."
-- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former."
--Albert Einstein

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
--Robert Frost

"Interesting things happen along borders--transitions--not in the middle where everything is the same."
--Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash