Quotes About Douglas

What the photon is it?" "Oh, just some five-million-year-old tape that's being broadcast at us." "A what? A recording?

Why doesn't anyone turn on this Improbability Drive thing?" he said. "We could probably reach that." "What are you, crazy?" said Zaphod. "Without proper programming anything could happen.

She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was very clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins. Gradually

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin. Again the pause. ' Oh d—' 'And that was with a coffee machine.' He waited.

once described by Eccentrica Gallumbits as the Best Bang since the Big One

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.

What's this switch?" he cried. "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round. "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.

The sun was beginning to dry out the mud that Arthur lay in.

Very strange people, physicists, he said as soon as they were outside again. In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.

the Worst Dressed Sentient Being in the Known Universe

He seemed nervous of the expectant awed hush, He cleared his throat.

The Answer to the Great Question . . ." "Yes . . . !" "Of Life, the Universe and Everything . . ." said Deep Thought. "Yes . . . !" "Is . . ." said Deep Thought, and paused. "Yes . . . !" "Is . . ." "Yes . . . !!! . . . ?" "Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

His white hair seemed to be waving at someone it knew in the next room.

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago," continued Marvin. [...] "And that was with a coffee machine.

sizi kahrolas? ilgisiz gezegen, sizlere kar?? hiçbir sempati beslemiyorum.

A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.'" "GPP feature?" said Arthur. "What's that?" "Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.

The Zaphod Beeblebrox?" "No, just a Zaphod Beeblebrox; didn't you hear I come in six packs?

Mr L. Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based bipedal life form descended from an ape.

Infinity minus one," chattered the computer. "Improbability sum now complete.

No, I'm very ordinary,' said Arthur, 'but some very strange things have happened to me. You could say I'm more differed from than differing.

You're crazy, Zaphod," he was saying, "Magrathea is a myth, a fairy story, it's what parents tell their kids about at night if they want them to grow up to become economists

I have no memory of him talking,' said the man, 'but I am very unreliable.

except that the legends say the Magratheans used to manufacture planets.