Douglas Adams:  "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

Kurt Vonnegut:  "Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things."

Edward P. Tryon:  "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."

John Andrew Holmes:  "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."

Max Frisch:  "Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it."

Woody Allen:  "I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."

Douglas Adams:  "In the beginning the Universe was created.  This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

William J. Broad:  "The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing."

Rich Cook:  "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

Fred Hoyle:  "There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for."

Ray Bradbury:  "We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."

Christopher Morley:  "My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed."

Edward Chilton:  "I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing.   It's not holding a charge."

Bill Watterson (creator of Calvin and Hobbes):  "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."