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.
ZAPHOD Hey, this rock...
FORD Marble...
ZAPHOD Marble...
FORD Ice-covered marble...
ZAPHOD Right... it's as slippery as... as... What's the
slipperiest
thing you can think of?
FORD At the moment? This marble.
ZAPHOD Right. This marble is as slippery as this marble.
-- Zaphod and Ford trying to get a grip on things in
Brontitall, Fit the Tenth.
FORD Marble...
ZAPHOD Marble...
FORD Ice-covered marble...
ZAPHOD Right... it's as slippery as... as... What's the
slipperiest
thing you can think of?
FORD At the moment? This marble.
ZAPHOD Right. This marble is as slippery as this marble.
-- Zaphod and Ford trying to get a grip on things in
Brontitall, Fit the Tenth.