Quotes About Douglas Adams

and was finally sent into tax exile, which is the usual fate reserved for those who are determined to make fools of themselves in public.

I read of one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole. Killed ten billion people.

Howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl gargle gargle howl gargle gargle gargle howl slurrp uuuurgh should have a good time. Message repeats.

Ford even began to whistle, which was probably his mistake. Nobody likes a whistler

A thoroughly ridiculous form of transport, but a thoroughly beautiful one.

Arthur paused, warily. "You going to ask

Milliways!" said Ford. "Yes, sir," said the waiter, laying on the patience with a trowel, "this is Milliways—the Restaurant at the End of the Universe." "End of what?" said Arthur.

The suns blazed into the pitch of space and a low ghostly music floated through the bridge: Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.

I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it,' said Marvin. 'And what happened?' pressed Ford. 'It committed suicide,' said Marvin

there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.

The life cycle of ratchet screwdriver fruit is quite interesting.

He gestured Arthur toward a chair which looked as if it had been made out of the rib cage of a stegosaurus. "It was made out of the rib cage of a stegosaurus," explained the old man

Zaphod! Wake up!' 'Mmmmmwwwwwerrrrr?' 'Hey, come on, wake up.' 'Just let me stick to what I'm good at, yeah?' muttered Zaphod and rolled away from the voice back to sleep.

Or do you just find that coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?

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.

monkey. I went along for the ride because I'd got some very safe money on him not doing it, and didn't want him coming back with fake evidence.

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.

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

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

said Ford, "you've got three pints to get through." "Three pints?" said Arthur. "At lunchtime?" The man next to Ford grinned and nodded happily. Ford ignored him.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering. It has been built on the fragmented remains of…it will be built on the fragmented…that is to say it will have been built by this time, and indeed has been—

the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

It had a note from him pinned to part of its sparse instrument panel. The note had an arrow drawn on it, pointing at one of the controls. It said This is probably the best button to press.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a very unevenly edited book and contains many passages that simply seemed to its editors like a good idea at the time.