Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Quotes
"Time passed, and then another light appeared, a smaller, mobile light."
"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder."
"It was a blackened stump of a tower. It stood like an extrusion of magma from one of the more pestilential pits of hell."
"Some wind whipped across the darkening plain, blundered through the low hills."
"The point is that St Cedd's College is a completely fictitious assemblage."
"I've never come across any irreversible mathematics involving sofas. Could be a new field."
"The problem with the valley was this. The Monk currently believed that the valley and everything in the valley and around it, was a uniform shade of pale pink."
"It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!"
"I'm not sure she really approves of computers very much. And she doesn't much like his attitude to money."
"You see there have already been several programs written that help you to arrive at decisions by properly ordering and analyzing all the relevant facts."
"Gordon's great insight was to design a program which allowed you to specify in advance what decision you wished it to reach."
"It's funny how many of the best ideas are just an old idea back-to-front."
"The entire project was bought up, lock, stock and barrel, by the Pentagon."
"I wouldn't have anything to do with it. Anyway, when the Pentagon bought everything, they bought everything."
"Maybe, the need for amiable chit-chat with someone different can become as urgent as any other need when you live in a community as enclosed as a Cambridge college was."
"I do not know if it is something which I have foolishly brought upon myself with my...my hobbies, or if it is something to which I have fallen an innocent victim."
"I've recently been analyzing a lot of the arguments put forward in favor of the Star Wars project, and if you know what you're looking for, the pattern of the algorithms is very clear."
"It's all right, it's just a horse in the bathroom."
"The shapes and processes we encounter in nature... can be described by the interaction of mathematical processes that are, if anything, even more magical in their simplicity."
"I believe that all things are fundamentally interconnected... yet some things are more interconnected than others."
"Music of any complexity... passes beyond your conscious mind into the arms of your own private mathematical genius who dwells in your unconscious."
"The very word 'natural' that we have often taken to mean 'unstructured' in fact describes shapes and processes that appear so unfathomably complex."
"It's the beauty of it... what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
"You will take off all your clothes and dive into the canal. You will find that you are unable to swim, but you will not panic or sink, you will simply tread water until I throw you the lifebelt..."
"I find it a wonderfully optimistic way of life."
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands."
"A ghost is someone who died either violently or unexpectedly with unfinished business on his, her -- or its -- hands."
"I think that a ghost...is someone who died either violently or unexpectedly with unfinished business on his, her -- or its -- hands."
"I mean, remember Cawley. What a bloodless old goat."
"It's skill. you see. Practice. Make it look natural."
"I have absolutely no idea," said Reg brightly, "much of my memory's gone completely."
"I once had a dead thrush under my seat for a month. No trick involved there, of course. Cat killed it."
"It's real," he said, "I promise you. Come out and see for yourself."
"We left behind those who would destroy themselves with war," murmured Michael.
"It was Susan he had been speaking to when he died and he knew he had somehow to speak to her again."
"The houses with light and life streaming from them upset him most particularly since the welcome they seemed to extend would not be extended to him."
"Whatever timbre a voice acquires through a billion or so years of dread and isolation, this voice had acquired it."
"I owe you both an apology," said the ghost within Michael "which I offer you from the depths of my heart."
"Discuss," said Richard, to himself, raising his eyebrows.
"Perhaps ghosts exist like wave patterns, like interference patterns between the actual with the possible."
"The only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself."
"For millions of years, and then billions, I stalked the mud utterly alone."
"I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! Those caves of ice!"
"We are already there," said Reg, "simply step out of the door, and you are home in your own flat."
"Dear Roderick passed away in my arms two years ago and I have not wished to replace him."
"To saving human race from total extinction -- no charge."