Quotes from Douglas Adams

The safety of the crew is absolutely assured.

He paused just long enough to make them feel they ought to say something, and then interrupted.

Here's a good trick, let's see how they cope with this. Oh, look! They've managed to find a way of climbing the tree. I didn't think they'd be able to do that. All right, let's see them get the thing open. Hmm, so they've found out how to temper steel now, have they? Okay, no more Mr. Nice Guy. Next time they go up that tree, I'll have a dragon waiting for them at the bottom.

Charming man,' he said. 'I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry one . .

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

working overtime to make up for their earlier blunder. They brought

He tossed over The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and then curled up into a foetal ball to prepare himself for the jump. At that moment the bottom fell out of Arthur's mind.

One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.

Do normálu sa vrátime ihne? ako stanovíme ?o je vlastne normálne.

But look, you found the notice, didn't you?" "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.

They both sat on the pavement and watched with a certain unease as huge children bounced heavily along the sand and wild horses thundered through the sky taking fresh supplies of reinforced railings to the Uncertain Areas.

a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

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.

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Does that matter at this stage?" shouted Arthur.

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

The legend is this: The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

similar to that which Macbeth had towards murdering people – initial doubts, followed by cautious enthusiasm and then greater and greater alarm at the sheer scale of the undertaking and still no end in sight.

This must be Thursday, I could never get the hang of Thursdays." Arthur Dent

He gestured Arthur towards a chair which looked as if it had been made out of the ribcage of a stegosaurus. 'It was made out of the ribcage of a stegosaurus,' explained the old man

Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big," time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.

So what's the point of showing me something I can't see?' 'So that you understand 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.

It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'