Quotes from Douglas Adams

Where they are, how they are, there's no way we can know and no way we can do anything about it. Do what I do.' 'What?' 'Don't think about it.

Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.

Eddies," said Ford, "in the space-time continuum." "Ah," nodded Arthur, "is he. Is he.

Don't tell me about the future," said Ford. "I've been all over the future. Spend half my time there. It's the same as anywhere else. Anywhen else. Whatever. Just the same old stuff in faster cars and smellier air.

Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy—not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous.

Computer," said Zaphod, "tell us what our present trajectory is.

I have no memory of him talking,' said the man, 'but I am very unreliable.

The mice will see you now," he said.

We find our images of what we call evil in things outside ourselves, in creatures that know nothing of such matters, so that we can feel revolted by them, and, by contrast, good about ourselves.

except that the legends say the Magratheans used to manufacture planets.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and a large number of its practitioners spend too many nights drowning their problems in Ouisghian Zodahs.

Life will always find a way og hanging on in somewhere.

that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.' 'Why, what did she tell you?' 'I don't know, I didn't listen.

Desde luego, la ciencia ha logrado cosas maravillosas, pero yo preferiría, con mucho, ser feliz.

No quiero morir todavía! ¡Aún me duele la cabeza, estaré de mal humor y no lo disfrutaré!

Aynen öyle, dedi Zaphod, pek çok insan? yumuÅŸak duvarl? bir odaya kilitletecek türden bir s?r?t??la.

They obstinately persisted in their absence

flashed one of those grins of his which always made people think he'd been overdoing things recently and should try to get some rest.

Trempé jusqu'aux os, il restait interdit sur le bas-côté de la route, lorsqu'un nouvel éclair déchira le ciel et l'illumina, lui laissant une fraction de seconde pour déchiffrer le message inscrit sur l'autocollant fixé à l'arrière de la machine avant que celle-ci ne disparaisse. Il en resta bouche bée, n'en croyant pas ses yeux. Il venait de lire : Mon autre voiture est aussi une Porsche.

Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night.

You're very strange," she said. "No, I'm very ordinary," said Arthur, "but some very strange things have happened to me. You could say I'm more differed from than differing.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. And

The main trade that was carried out was in the skins of the NowWhattian boghog but it wasn't a very successful one because no one in their right minds would want to buy a NowWhattian boghog skin. The trade only hung on by its fingernails because there was always a significant number of people in the Galaxy who were not in their right minds.