Quotes About Douglas Adams

Anyone who even notices, let alone calls attention to the curious, but utterly coincidental and meaningless fact that every world on which the Guide has ever set up an accounting department has shortly afterward perished in warfare or some natural disaster, is liable to get sued to smithereens.

Numbers written on restaurant checks within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single statement took the scientific world by storm. It completely revolutionized it. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure and the science of math was put back by years. Slowly

stared fixedly into the sky like a rabbit trying to get run over by a car.

Nevertheless, like every parking lot in the Galaxy throughout the entire history of parking lots, this parking lot smelled predominantly of impatience

But how are you, metalman?" said Ford. "Very depressed.

Not a lot, he said, and suddenly flashed one of those grins of his which always made people think he's been overdoing things recently and should try and get some rest.

The Hollywood process is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.

Los Angeles, which is described in the new edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in one entry as "junky, wunky, lunky, stunky, and what's that other word, and all kinds of bad stuff, woo

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sequence used the tropes of science fiction to talk about the things that concerned Douglas, the world he observed, his thoughts on Life, the Universe, and Everything.

My reverie jumps me into the middle of the period and I conjure the giant, unforgettable figure of Douglas Adams, sadly absent from the feast.

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

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed.

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

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

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

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.