h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

May favourite: "What a depressingly stupid machine"

It's more from context than from the line itself...


Geggs

"Oh, pardon me for breathing, which I don't actually do anyway, so I don't know why I bother to say it. Oh God! I'm SO depressed!"

Arthur: "Do you mean you can actually read my mind?"
Marvin: "Yes"
Arthur: "And...?"
Marvin: "It amazes me how you can live in something so small."
Arthur: "Ah. Abuse"
Marvin: "Yes"

Just brilliant!

But where is Marvin now?

Try this: http://www.scintilla.utwente.nl/asdfhjkl (Or whatever document there might not be present on th server.)

=)

How funny! Mum and I had a damn good laugh!

ZAPHOD: Hey, where are you?
MARVIN: In the car park
ZAPHOD: What are you doing there?
MARVIN: Parking cars. What else does one do in a car park.

Pure genius.

I love Arthur's description of him as being an "Electronic sulking machine".

referring to being abandoned on a desolate planet for the best part of the entire life of the universe - "I think you ought to know i'm feeling very depressed."
Or, in the same phone conversation, "'Would you like me to stick my head in a bucket of water? I've got one ready. Wait a minute'
'Er, hey, Marvin...' interrupted Zaphod, but it was too late. Sad little clunks and gurgles came up the line."

Plus he reminds me of the maths lecturer i had before he had a nervous breakdown and left teaching to become a writer.

"Now I lay me down to sleep,
try to count electric sheep,
sweet dream wishes you can keep,
how I hate the night.

Now I lay me down to bed,
Darkness won't engulf my head,
I can see in infrared,
how I hate the night."

"Is that your robot?" asked Slartibartfast.

"No,I'm mine." came the reply from Marvin.



"Life,loathe it or ignore it,you can't like it."



"But Marvin,there's a whole new life opening up in front of you,"said Zaphod

"Oh no!not another one,"came the reply

How could we forget....

"Life. Don't talk to me about life."

"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."

"You watch this door, it's about to open again. I can tell by the intolerable air of smugness it suddenly generates."

"He [Zaphod] decided that there must be someone in he Yniverse feeling more wretched, miserable and forsaken than himself, and he determined to set out and find him. Halfway to the bridge it occurred to him that it mght e Marvin and he returned to bed."

"Making it up?" said Marvin, swivelling his head in a parody of astonishment. "Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it."

This is possibly the definitive Marvin speech, only to be found in the second radio series:

Oh - look - I appear to be lying at the bottom of a very deep dark hole. That seems a familiar concept. What does it remind me of? Ah, I remember. Life. That's what lying at the bottom of a deep dark hole reminds me of. Life. Perhaps if I just lie here and ignore it it will go away again.

Or then again, perhaps not. To be perfectly frank with myself, if it didn't go away as a result of me falling fifteen miles through the air and a further mile through solid rock I'm probably stuck with it for good. Why don't I just lie here anyway? Why don't I climb out? Why don't I just go zootlewurdle? Does it matter? Even if it does matter, does it matter that it matters?

Zootlewurdle zootlewurdle zootlewurdle......

The first 10 million years; they were the worst. And the second 10 million; they were the worst, too. The third 10 million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline...

i've got this terrible pain in my diodes, all down the left hand side...
not so much for the quote itself, but the way it continues all thru the books.

Zaphod:Hey Marvin!Good to see you. How you doing?

Marvin:Fine if you happen to like being me which personally I don't.

I suppose you want to see the aliens now.Do you want me to stand in a corner and rust or just fall apart where I'm standing?

hey that poor depressed server was funny...don' make me laugh - i'm in the library.

OK, Marvin quote.....
(on the phone in Milliways)

Zaphod:OK we'll be down in a minute.
Marvin:So will I.

You think you've got problems. What are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot? No don't try to answer that..I'm 50 thousand times more intelligent thaan you and even I can't figure it out.

Marvin counted 1 million sheep before falling asleep half a second later(Or something like that).