Quotes from Douglas Adams

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

What's up?" [asked Ford.]"I don't know, " said Marvin, "I've never been there.

Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

Conceited little mega-puppy.

Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight.

One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.

I'm afraid you cannot leave, ' said Zarniwoop, 'you are entwined in the Improbability Field. You cannot escape.' He smiled the smile that Zaphod had wanted to hit and this time Zaphod hit it.

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.