Quotes from Douglas Adams

sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But, Mrs. Benson, stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.

The socially correct way of pouring tea is to put the milk in after the tea. Social correctness has traditionally had nothing whatever to do with reason, logic, or physics. In fact, in England it is generally considered socially incorrect to know stuff or think about things. It's worth bearing this in mind when visiting.

And if you want to pop off for a quick one yourself later on," said Ford, "we can always cover for you in return.

Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.

He could only assume that he had just won. "So," continued Ford Prefect, "if you would just like to come over here and lie down …" "What?" said Mr. Prosser. "Ah, I'm sorry," said Ford, "perhaps I hadn't made myself fully clear. Somebody's got to lie in front of the bulldozers, haven't they? Or there won't be anything to stop them driving into Mr. Dent's house, will there?

Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.

If it could not possibly be done, then obviously it had been done impossibly. The question was how?

It's very simple," said Ford, "my client, Mr. Dent, says that he will stop lying here in the mud on the sole condition that you come and take over from him.

First you had to fight the Stones fans, which was tricky because they fought dirty and had their knuckles nearer the ground.

Sometimes if you receive an answer, the question might be taken away.

He decided to feel sorry for himself. That would pass the time.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Rehberde deniyor ki uçmak bir sanatm??. dedi Ford, ya da daha çok bir marifet. Asl?nda bütün marifet kendini yere doÄŸru f?rlat?p yeri ?skalamakta yat?yor.

Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right?

All right," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the Great Question . . ." "Yes . . . !" "Of Life, the Universe and Everything . . ." said Deep Thought. "Yes . . . !" "Is . . ." said Deep Thought, and paused. "Yes . . . !" "Is . . ." "Yes . . . !!! . . . ?" "Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

But can we trust him?" he said. "Myself I'd trust him to the end of the Earth," said Ford.

My wife kept wheat germ in ours," resumed Wonko, with some new tone in his voice, "until last night.…" "What," said Arthur slowly and hushedly, "happened last night?" "We ran out of wheat germ," said Wonko, evenly. "My wife," he added, "has gone to get some more.

but I'd far rather be happy than right any day." "And are you?" "No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that if there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

Aveva pensato che se gli esseri umani non si esercitavano in continuazione ad aprire e chiudere la bocca, correvano il rischio di cominciare a far lavorare il cervello.

But naturally my shoulder, sir,' mooed the animal contentedly, 'nobody else's is mine to offer.

His mouth started to speak, but his brain decided it hadn't got anything to say yet and shut it again. His brain then started to contend with the problem of what his eyes told it they were looking at, but in doing so relinquished control of the mouth which promptly fell open again. Once more gathering up the jaw, his brain lost control of his left hand which then wandered around in an aimless fashion.

There is of course an extremely good reason for wearing shorts when you're young, even in the depths of an English winter (and they were colder then, weren't they?). According to Wired magazine, we can't expect to see self-repairing fabrics until about the year 2020, but ever since we emerged from whatever trees or swamps we lived in five million years ago, we have had self-repairing knees.