Quotes from Douglas Adams

Lo spazio è vasto. Veramente vasto. Non riuscireste mai a credere quanto enormemente incredibilmente spaventosamente vasto esso sia. Voglio dire, magari voi pensate che andare fino alla vostra farmacia sia un bel tratto di strada, ma quel tratto di strada è una bazzecola in confronto allo spazio.

When you're young, and just emerging from the four walls of home into the wide world outside, that's exactly when you feel so small, like Arthur Dent, all alone in the universe. That's when you act as wildly two-headed as Zaphod. That's when you really need someone to say 'Don't Panic'. It's the perfect age to mutter a heartfelt 'Oh no, not again,' a phrase so much wiser than today's 'Whatever'.

Ford," he said, "you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

If I hadn't happened then to duck down a side street and pass a hotel where a convention for the deaf was being held, there is every chance that my mind would have cracked completely

The planet has-- or rather had-- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. And the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Milliways!" said Ford. "Yes, sir," said the waiter, laying on the patience with a trowel, "this is Milliways—the Restaurant at the End of the Universe." "End of what?" said Arthur.

The computers were index-linked to the Galactic stock-market prices, you see, so that we'd all be revived when everybody else had rebuilt the economy enough to afford our rather expensive services.

Elbette ki hayatla baÄŸlant?l? pek çok mesele vard?r ve iÅŸte size onlar?n en yayg?n olanlar?ndan birkaç?: Ä°nsanlar neden doÄŸar? Neden ölürler? Neden bu ikisi aras?nda geçen zaman?n büyük bir bölümünü dijital kol saatleri takarak geçirmek isterler.

I went to Cambridge University. I took a number of baths—and a degree in English.

Buz dolab?na adeta dans ederek gitti, içindeki aç?s?ndan en az tüylü üç ÅŸeyi buldu ve onlar? bir tabaÄŸa koyarak iki dakika boyunca dikkatle izledi. Bu süre içinde hareket etmek için herhangi bir giriÅŸimde bulunmad?klar?ndan dolay? onlar? kahvalt? oalrak adland?rd? ve yedi.

then sat down to do what every galactic hitchhiker ends up spending most of his time doing. They waited for a flying saucer to come by.

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

The suns blazed into the pitch of space and a low ghostly music floated through the bridge: Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.

In my aircar," said the old man, motioning Arthur to get into the craft which had settled silently next to them. "We are going deep into the bowels of the planet where even now our race is being revived from its five-million-year slumber.

I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it,' said Marvin. 'And what happened?' pressed Ford. 'It committed suicide,' said Marvin

Mixture of pleasure and pain," he muttered. "Always does the trick.

What's this fish doing in my ear?" "It's translating for you. It's a Babel fish. Look it up in the book if you like.

Ä°nsan Evrende ne kadar daha h?zl? ve ne kadar uzaÄŸa giderse Evrendeki yeri de o kadar önemsiz görünüyor.

We'll take in a quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence.

Arthur Dent was grappling with his consciousness the way one grapples with a lost bar of soap in the bath.

He looked up at the sky, which was sullen, streaked and livid, and reflected that it was the sort of sky that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse wouldn't feel like a bunch of complete idiots riding out of.

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question, "How can we eat?", the second by the question, "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question, "Where shall we have lunch?