Quotes from Douglas Adams

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." ? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Don't panic and carry a towel

their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.

Two to the power of twenty thousand to one against and falling.

En ese caso debemos estar locos. - No es mal día para estarlo.

Ford', he said, 'how many escape capsules are there?' 'None,' said Ford. Zaphod gibbered. 'Did you count them?' he yelled. 'Twice,' said Ford

didn't deserve this sort of treatment; he was a dignified old man.

Spring is overrated.

The mess is extraordinary, and has to be seen to be believed, but if you don't have any particular need to believe it, then don't go and look, because you won't enjoy it.

you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it's far too late to start making a fuss about it now.

It has been said that Vogons are not above a little bribery and corruption in the same way that the sea is not above the clouds

Would you like to see the menu?" he said. "Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?

For a while they flew on, motionless against the starry sweep of the Galaxy, itself motionless against the infinite sweep of the Universe. And then they turned round. "It'll have to go," the men of Krikkit said as they headed back for home.

but 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.

Who better to capitalize on the media market then you yourselves? So long as you can keep disagreeing with each other violently enough and maligning each other in the popular press, and so long as you have clever agents, you can keep yourselves on the gravy train for life.

He turned it and turned it. They could see quite clearly in the fine tracery of its etchwork the words "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.' 'And are you?' 'No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

It seemed somehow unnaturally dark and silent, even for a ship whose two-man crew was at that moment lying asphyxicated in a smoke-filled chamber several miles beneath the ground. It is one of those curious things that is impossible to explain or define, but one can sense when a ship is completely dead.

But Douglas was a genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, he could communicate the world he saw. Also, once you'd seen it his way you could never go back.

here's something to occupy you and keep your mind off things.' 'It won't work,' droned Marvin, 'I have an exceptionally large mind.

I like everything," moaned the robot. "Especially when you shout at me like that. Do it again, please.

Funny old thing, life, isn't it?

If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up.