Quotes from Douglas Adams

Bir ÅŸeyi görmen onun orada olduÄŸu anlam?na gelmez. Ayn? ÅŸekilde bir ÅŸeyi görmemen de onun orada olmad??? anlam?na gelmez. Her ÅŸey alg?lar?n?n senin dikkatini nereye yönelttiÄŸine baÄŸl?d?r.

Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.

One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places its prepared to put up with living.

The three billion people weren't actually there, but they watched his every gesture through the eyes of a small robot tri-D camera which hovered obsequiously in the air nearby.

I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway.

And are you not," said Fook, leaning anxiously forward, "a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?

Hey," he said, "I thought you said you didn't want to shoot us!" and ducked again. They waited. After a moment a voice replied, "It isn't easy being a cop!

Are you suggesting that those men were in my employ? That's exactly what I'm suggesting. I don't know if you noticed but those men were pointing a gun at me. I'm sorry, but if anyone in my employ did that, I'd sack them on the spot.

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed,' it said. Its voice was low and hopeless.

Hey, is there something in this water?' he said. 'Er, no, m'lud,' said the Court Usher who had brought it to him, rather nervously. 'Then take it away,' snapped Judiciary Pag, 'and put something in it. I got an idea.

Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.

He was also firmly and utterly opposed to all and any forms of cruelty to any animals whatsoever except geese.

the fact that the fabulously beautiful planet Bethselamin is now so worried about the cumulative erosion by ten billion visiting tourists a year that any net imbalance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete whilst on the planet is surgically removed from your bodyweight when you leave: so every time you go to the lavatory there it is vitally important to get a receipt.) To

But can we trust him?' he said. 'Myself, I'd trust him to the end of the Earth,' said Ford. 'Oh yes,' said Arthur, 'and how far's that?' 'About twelve minutes away,' said Ford. 'Come on, I need a drink.

But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey

The numbers, he said, are awful. He resumed his search. Arthur nodded wisely to himself. After a while he realized that this wasn't getting him anywhere and decided that he would say what? after all. In space travel, repeated Slartibartfast, all the numbers are awful.

If there's one thing that life's taught me," said Tricia, "it's never go back for your bag.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To

The history of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of idealism, struggle, despair, passion, success, failure and enormously long lunch-breaks.

Özetlersek: Ä°yi bilinen bir gerçektir ki, halk? yönetmeyi en çok isteyenler, ipso facto, bu iÅŸi yapmaya en az uygun olanlard?r. Özeti özetleyecek olursak: kendisinin BaÅŸkan yap?lmas?n? saÄŸlayabilecek kiÅŸilerin bu iÅŸi yapmas?na hiçbir surette izin verilmemesi gerekir. Özetin özetinin özeti: Halk bir problemdir.

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand million, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a billion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001. After Douglas died, the movie of Hitchhiker moved out of development hell into the clear uplands of production, using much of Douglas's original script and ideas. Douglas shares the writing credit for the movie with Karey Kirkpatrick.