Quotes from Douglas Adams

You're a jerk," repeated the alien, "a complete kneebiter.

People think that if you just say 'hallucinations' it explains anything you want it to explain and eventually whatever it is you can't understand will just go away. It's just a word, it doesn't explain anything. It doesn't explain why the dolphins disappeared.

Bir Ä°sviçre Peyniri Bitkisiyle bile yeterince uzun süre yaln?z kald???nda kendini rahats?z hissedip utanmay? baÅŸarabilen Arthur için bu an, kesintisiz bir ayd?nlanma an?yd?.

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 – whilst 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.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?" ? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

McDonald's, he thought. There is no longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger.

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.

Non è un vero scienziato chi ha timore che la gente lo ritenga pazzo.

They threw themselves back to the ground that seemed to spin hideously around them. "What was that?" hissed Arthur. "Something red," hissed Ford back at him. "Where are we?" "Er, somewhere green." "Shapes," muttered Arthur, "I need shapes." The

His name was Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. He was a man with a purpose. Not a very good purpose, as he would have been the first to admit, but it was at least a purpose and it did at least keep him on the move.

History is never altered you see, it just fits together like a jigsaw. Funny old thing, life, isn't it?

there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.

çünkü ben bir ölüyüm, ki böyle olmak insana mükemmel ve hiçbir ÅŸeyle engellen?nemiÅŸ bir bak?? aç?s? saÄŸl?yor. Bizim oralarda 'hayat yaÅŸayanlar?n elinde ziyan olur' diye bir söz vard?r.

To those who said that they had a feeling soap wasn't found in mines, the Captain had ventured to suggest that perhaps that was because no one had looked hard enough, and this possibility had been reluctantly acknowledged.

He pressed the entry for the relevant page. The screen flashed and swirled and resolved into a page of print. Arthur stared at it. "It doesn't have an entry!" he burst out.

A teaser? Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets which haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz them.

Zaphod! Wake up!" "Mmmmmwwwwwerrrr?" "Hey, come on, wake up." "Just let me stick to what I'm good at, yeah?" muttered Zaphod, and rolled away from the voice back to sleep. "Do you want me to kick you?" said Ford. "Would it give you a lot of pleasure?" said Zaphod, blearily. "No." "Nor me. So what's the point? Stop bugging me." Zaphod curled himself up.

Damn it and blast it, he thought, and felt the need of some guidance and advice. He consulted the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He looked up guidance and it said See under ADVICE. He looked up advice and it said see under GUIDANCE.

We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.

The life cycle of ratchet screwdriver fruit is quite interesting.

Ford grasped him by the lapels of his dressing gown and spoke to him as slowly and distinctly and patiently as if he were somebody from the telephone company accounts department.

Raffia-wrapped bottles lurked hideously in the shadows.

Existe uma teoria que diz que, se um dia alguém descobrir exatamente para que serve o Universo e por que ele está aqui, ele desaparecerá instantaneamente e será substituído por algo ainda mais estranho e inexplicável.

At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.