Quotes from Douglas Adams

The man next to Ford grinned and nodded happily. Ford ignored him. He said, "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.' Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Oradan sekiz saat uzakta, bat?da, bir adam kumsalda oturmuÅŸ, anlat?lmaz kayb? için yas tutuyordu. Kayb?n?n yas?n? ancak küçük keder paketleri halinde tutabiliyordu, çünkü tamam?, ta??nmas? çok zor kocaman bir yük oluÅŸturuyordu.

Oh, hello, Arthur Dent here. Look, sorry I haven't been in for six months but I've gone mad." "Oh, not to worry. Thought it was probably something like that. Happens here all the time. How soon can we expect you?" "When do hedgehogs start hibernating?" "Sometime in spring, I think." "I'll be in shortly after that." "Righty-ho.

I refuse to prove that I exist," says God "for proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing".

Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one—more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty-three More Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Coluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who Is This God Person Anyway?

His eyes passed over the solid shapes of the instruments and computers that lined the bridge. They winked away innocently at him. He stared out at the stars, but none of them said a word.

Herkesin hayatta büyük f?rsat? yakalad??? bir an vard?r. EÄŸer gerçekten önem verdiÄŸiniz f?rsat? kaç?racak olursan?z, hayat?n?zdaki her ÅŸeyin ürkütücü derecede kolaylaÅŸt???n? görürsünüz.

Marvin flashed her an electronic look.

This 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.

thinking is not really something they are cut out for.

A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind,' said the man.

I wasn't disturbed so much by the O Lord, we thank Thee for the blessing of Thy day, but We commend our lives into Thy hands. O lord is frankly not the sort of thing you want to hear from a pilot as his hand is reaching for the throttle.

A crowd that has just watched a rather humdrum game experiences far less life affirmation than a crowd that believes it has just missed the most dramatic event in sporting history.

uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of

He had the perfect idea for explaining away every inexplicable weirdness about himself at a stroke, and he whistled as he pushed open the door which had so daunted him last night. "Arthur!!!!" He grinned cheerfully at the boggling eyes that stared at him from all corners of the pub, and told them all what a wonderful time he'd had in Southern California.

It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons. Curiously

Hay una teoría que afirma que si alguien descubriera lo que es exactamente el universo y el porqué de su existencia, desaparecería al instante y sería sustituido por algo aún más extraño e inexplicable. Hay otra teoría que afirma que eso ya ha ocurrido

In Relativity, Matter tells Space how to bend, and Space tells Matter how to move.

I was most upset to hear of its destruction.

The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm's way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea, all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to another.

It is a farewell gift from the dolphins," said Wonko in a low quiet voice, "the dolphins whom I loved and studied, and swam with, and fed with fish, and even tried to learn their language, a task which they seemed to make impossibly difficult, considering the fact that I now realize they were perfectly capable of communicating

it must be said, some success. For instance, he had spent those fifteen years pretending to be an out-of-work actor, which was plausible enough.

he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.