Quotes from Douglas Adams

Bu büyüklükteki bir evrende eÄŸer yaÅŸam var olacaksa, kiÅŸinin orant? duygusu diye bir lüksü kald?ramayaca??n? kesin olarak kan?tlamas?yd?.

looked as if the various parts of its more or less humanoid body didn't quite fit properly.

but do you really think it's wise under the circumstances? I mean, here we are on the run and everything, we must have the police of half the Galaxy after us by now, and we stop to pick up hitchhikers.

These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vast hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings.

This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem

We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

mechanically inept

There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are: Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time.

The ship did. All by itself." "Huh?" "While we were in Improbability Drive." "But that's incredible." "No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable.

She thought that trying to live life according to any plan you actually work out is like trying to buy ingredients for a recipe from the supermarket. You get one of those carts, which simply will not go in the direction you push it, and end up just having to buy completely different stuff. What do you do with it? What do you do with the recipe? She didn't know.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem

and made what an outside observer would have thought was a heroic effort to cross the room.

the editors, having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back of a packet of breakfast cereal, hastily embroidering it with a few footnotes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly tortuous Galactic Copyright laws. It is interesting to note that a later and wilier editor sent the book backward in time through a temporal warp, and then successfully sued the breakfast cereal company for infringement of the same laws.

It's unpleasantly like being drunk.' 'What's so unpleasant about being drunk?' 'You ask a glass of water.

Ford Prefect was indeed in a seedy bar trying to talk somebody into buying him a drink and only achieving success as a total failure in this venture. The expression 'It is far better to give than receive' referred only to physical violence in this bar.

Think of a number, any number." "Er, five," said the mattress. "Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?" The

bring the two aliens up here under surveillance." With a microsecond pause, and a finely calculated micro-modulation of pitch and timbre—nothing you could actually take offense at—Marvin managed to convey his utter contempt and horror of all things human. "Just that?" he said.

sizi kahrolas? ilgisiz gezegen, sizlere kar?? hiçbir sempati beslemiyorum.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

This," he said, "really is the absolute end, the final chilling desolation, in which the whole majestic sweep of creation becomes extinct. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the proverbial 'it.' " He dropped his voice still lower. In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear its throat. "After this," he said, "there is nothing. Void. Emptiness. Oblivion. Absolute nothing….

That's a good name—ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me? And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

it's partly the curiosity, partly a sense of adventure, but mostly I think it's the fame and the money . . .