Quotes About Douglas Adams

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

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.

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.

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.

Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.

If it's right, it means the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is not 42, with apologies to fans of Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But Deep Thought was on the right track: the secret of the universe is indeed mathematical.

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

Help was at hand in the rather large shape of Douglas Adams. As well as being the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas was an Apple Mac genius, guitar enthusiast and – fortunately for us – a fan of Pink Floyd. He could bring a marvellous sense of humour to the most desperate moments. He became party to a lot of the discussions about the album title.