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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

This is a collection of quotes from Douglas Adams' famous “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”.

To install these fortunes, copy the .dat file to your fortunes directory (possibly /usr/games/lib/fortunes). To use it, simply type: fortune hitchhiker

Download: fortune-hitchhiker.tgz (Last Update 2005-06-11)

Guillaume Rousse maintains a Mandrake package of this fortune collection at the Penguin Liberation Front.

BOOK ...Man had always assumed that he was more
intelligent than
dolphins because he had achieved so much... the
wheel, New York,
wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever
done was muck
about in the water having a good time. But
conversely the
dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent
than man for
precisely the same reasons.