Douglas Adams: "Patut diulangi pada titik ini teori-teori yang muncul...

"Patut diulangi pada titik ini teori-teori yang muncul Ford, pada pertemuan pertamanya dengan manusia, untuk menjelaskan kebiasaan aneh mereka secara terus-menerus menyatakan dan menyatakan kembali yang sangat sangat jelas, seperti dalam "Ini hari yang menyenangkan," atau "Kamu sangat tinggi," atau "Jadi ini dia, kita akan mati." Teori pertamanya adalah bahwa jika manusia tidak terus melatih bibir mereka, mulut mereka mungkin mengerut. Setelah beberapa bulan pengamatan, dia menemukan teori kedua, yaitu - "Jika manusia tidak terus melatih bibir mereka, otak mereka mulai bekerja."

--- Douglas Adams

Versi Bahasa Inggris

It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.