Quotes from Douglas Adams

Curiosamente, lo único que pasó por la mente del tiesto de petunias mientras caía fue: ¡Oh, no! Otra vez, no. Mucha gente ha imaginado que si supiéramos exactamente lo que pensó el tiesto de petunias, conoceríamos mucho más de la naturaleza del Universo de lo que sabemos ahora.

They did not realize that because of the quasi-reciprocal and circular nature of all Improbability calculations, anything that was Infinitely Improbable was actually very likely to happen almost immediately.

Many races believe that it was created by some sort of god, though the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI believe that the entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure.

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have a chaperone.

but when launched, it did not even manage to complete its very first radio message—an SOS—before undergoing a sudden and gratuitous total existence failure.

But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate." This

A steel door closed and the captain was on his own again. He hummed quietly and mused to himself, lightly fingering his notebook of verses. "Hmmm," he said, "counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor …" He considered this for a moment, and then closed the book with a grim smile. "Death's too good for them," he said.

Ship?" he called. "Yup?" said the ship. "Do what I do." The ship thought about this for a few milliseconds and then, after double checking all the seals on its heavy duty bulkheads, it began slowly, inexorably, in the hazy blaze of its lights, to sink to the lowest depths.

He would insult the universe. That is, he would insult everyone in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and in alphabetical order.

Não é o bastante ver que um jardim é bonito sem ter que acreditar também que há fadas escondidas nele?

Life,' he said, 'is like a grapefruit.' 'Er, how so?' 'Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.

You'd probably guessed that anyway. The Census report, like most such surveys, had cost an awful lot of money and told nobody anything they didn't already know

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines, one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

One of those nasty hushes had descended on the place, a sort of missile crisis sort of hush. Even

The idea for the title first cropped up while I was lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1971. Not particularly drunk, just the sort of drunk you get when you have a couple of stiff Gössers after not having eaten for two days straight, on account of being a penniless hitchhiker. We are talking of a mild inability to stand up.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

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

The first thing they saw on leaving the elevator was a long concrete wall with over fifty doors in it offering lavatory facilities for all of fifty major life forms. Nevertheless, like every parking lot in the Galaxy throughout the entire history of parking lots, this parking lot smelled predominantly of impatience.

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without proper training.

Bu gezegenin ÅŸöyle bir sorunu var - eskiden vard?: Üzerinde yaÅŸayan halk?n büyük bölümü çoÄŸu zaman mutsuzdu. Bu sorun için pek çok çözüm önerilmiÅŸti, ama bunlar?n çoÄŸu genellikle yeÅŸil renkli ka??t parçalar?n?n hareketleriyle ilgiliydi. Bu da tuhaft?, çünkü asl?nda mutsuz olanlar yeÅŸil renkli küçük ka??t parçalar? deÄŸildi.

Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?" "How much?" said Arthur. "None at all

It deals with that most terrible and harrowing experience in life - trying to remember an address which somebody told you but you didn't write down.

worked hard to blend himself into Earth society—with