Quotes from Douglas Adams

He should have known it was all wrong the moment they started hanging grand pianos over the sea-monster pool in the atrium.

He waited and waited for another accident to happen. The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what "accident" means. The accident that eventually occurred was not what he had planned at all.

that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

A história de todas as grandes civilizações galácticas tende a passar por três fases distintas e identificáveis: a da Sobrevivência, a da Interrogação e a da Sofisticação, também conhecidas pelas fases Como, Porquê e Onde. Por exemplo, a primeira fase é caracterizada pela pergunta Como vamos comer?, a segunda pela pergunta Por que comemos? e a terceira pela pergunta Onde vamos almoçar?.

C'est un sujet mort, Arthur. Il est étendu par terre. Il agite ses petites pattes et il ne va pas tarder à gagner le grenier des archives, ma petite pipistrelle adorée.

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself.

Outside, he said to her: 'I think the Universe is in pretty good hands, yeah?' 'Very good,' said Trillian. They walked off into the rain.

Arthur made nervous noises.

I went mad for a while," said Ford, "did me no end of good.

Ah, a vida - disse Marvin, lúgubre. - Pode-se odiá-la ou ignorá-la, mas é impossível gostar dela.

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen.

the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

I hate that door, continued Marvin. I'm not getting you down at all, am I?

the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone 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.

He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.'" "GPP feature?" said Arthur. "What's that?" "Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers to the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was "yes.

Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built, and we've got to build another one.

Non tout baigne, tout ce qui est susceptible de biagner, baigne.

Cómo puedo saber que el pasado no es una ficción inventada para explicar la discrepancia entre mis sensaciones físicas inmediatas y mi estado de ánimo?

Arthur woke up and instantly regretted it.