Quotes from Douglas Adams

who pursued a brilliant academic career studying ancient philology, transformational ethics and the wave harmonic theory of historical perception

It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet," said Zaphod quietly. "I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

Halka hükmemeyi en çok isteyenler, bu iÅŸi yapmaya en az uygun olanlard?r.

The last thing he wanted after a hellish night like this one was some blasted day coming along and barging about the place.

and was finally sent into tax exile, which is the usual fate reserved for those who are determined to make fools of themselves in public.

So far they had not done well. They had attempted to eat some of them, bury others and throw the rest of them away. Arthur had finally encouraged one of them to lay a couple of stones on the board he had scratched out, which was not even as far as he'd managed to get the day before. Along with the rapid deterioration in the morale of these creatures, there seemed to be a corresponding deterioration in their actual intelligence

He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play somewhere more healthy.

If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working

?ovjek pokraj Forda se dosad ve? malo nacvrcao. O?i su mu zavijugale do Forda. Mislio sam, rekao je, da kad svijet propada treba le?i na pod i staviti papirnatu kesu na glavu ili tako nešto. Ako ho?ete, možete, re?e Ford. Tako su nam rekli u vojsci, rekao je ?ovjek, a o?i su mu krenule na dug put natrag do njegovog viskija. To ?e pomo?i?, upita barmen. Ne, rekao je Ford im prijateljski se osmjehnuo.

I read of one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole. Killed ten billion people.

Bill Black is said to be one of the most experienced helicopter pilots in the world, and he needs to be. He sits like a cuddly old curmudgeon hunched over his joystick and chews gum slowly and continuously as he flies his helicopter directly at sheer cliff faces to see if you'll scream.

the two suns! It was like mountains of fire boiling into space.

Die Zeit ist eine Illusion. Die Mittagszeit erst recht.

The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried

Sen iyi misin? dedi çocuk. Hay?r, dedi Arthur. Peki, sakal?nda neden bir kemik var? dedi çocuk. Onu, koyduÄŸum yeri sevmesi için eÄŸitiyorum.

Howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl gargle gargle howl gargle gargle gargle howl slurrp uuuurgh should have a good time. Message repeats.

It might not even have made much difference to them if they'd known exactly how much power the President of the Galaxy actually wielded: none at all. Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.

The other two-thirds stayed firmly at home and lived full, rich and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

watching the very last glimmers of light sink into blackness behind the horizon.

Two places away to the left was the don who had been Richard's Director of Studies in English, who showed no signs of recognising him at all. This was hardly surprising since Richard had spent his three years here assiduously avoiding him, often to the extent of growing a beard and pretending to be someone else.

people's natural predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting or can't explain.

When you've been in marketing as long as I have you'll know that before any new product can be developed it has to be properly researched. We've got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them.

La historia de todas las civilizaciones importantes de la Galaxia tiende a pasar por tres etapas diferentes y reconocibles, las de Supervivencia, Indagación y Refinamiento, también conocidas por las fases del Cómo, del Por qué y del Dónde. »Por ejemplo, la primera fase se caracteriza por la pregunta: ¿Cómo podemos comer?; la segunda, por la pregunta: ¿Por qué comemos? y la tercera, por la pregunta: ¿Dónde vamos a almorzar?»

Conceited little megapuppy.