Quotes from Douglas Adams

In the winter time the temperature falls well below the legal minimum.

Era tempo, diceva l'oroscopo, di agire con positiva fermezza, prendere ardue decisioni, vedere cosa occorresse fare e farlo. Era tutto assai difficile per lui, ma, sapeva il Capo, nessuno aveva mai detto che fare cose difficili non fosse difficile.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.

A thoroughly ridiculous form of transport, but a thoroughly beautiful one.

Arthur paused, warily. "You going to ask

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost for ever.

Is there any tea on this spaceship?

I've heard a tape of collected kakapo noises, and it's almost impossible to believe that it all just comes from a bird, or indeed any kind of animal. Pink Floyd studio out-takes perhaps, but not a parrot.

Thirty seconds into the conversation, and already he'd blown it. Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a tight corner …" "Yeah?" "Please don't hesitate to get lost.

and news reports brought to you here on the sub-etha waveband, broadcasting around the Galaxy around the clock,' squawked a voice, 'and we'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere…and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.

He suddenly shivered: he experienced a momentary sensation that he didn't understand because no one on Earth had ever experienced it before. In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal. This signal simply communicates an exact and almost pathetic sense of how far that being is from the place of his birth. On Earth it is never possible to be farther than sixteen thousand miles from your birthplace

There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath. The

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall,or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right?

But that's incredible." "No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable." "Er, yeah.

You know,' said Arthur, 'it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, 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.' 'Oh.' Ford carried on humming.

You're a jerk, Dent," said the boy, "a complete kneebiter.

He took a deep breath. He didn't need to do this since his body was supplied with the peculiar assortment of gases it required for survival from a small intravenous device strapped to his leg. There are times, however, when whatever your metabolism you have to take a deep breath.

La Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti nomina l'alcol. Dice che la miglior bevanda alcolica che esiste è il Gotto Esplosivo Pangalattico. Dice che quando si beve un Gotto Esplosivo Pangalattico si ha l'impressione che il cervello venga spappolato da una fetta di limone legata intorno a un grosso mattone d'oro.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term Future Perfect has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

the recession came and we decided it would save a lot of bother if we just slept through it. So we programmed the computers to revive us when it was all over.

O universo, como já foi dito anteriormente, é um lugar desconcertantemente grande, um fato que, para continuar levando uma vida tranquila, a maioria das pessoas tende a ignorar.

His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this—"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

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