“Sawing a lady in half is easy. Sawing a lady in half and then joining her up together again is less easy,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is." (Sass: know, be aware of,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“She was of course the last person to judge somebody by the color of their skin - or if not absolutely the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Proving nothing," said Ford. "I wouldn't trust that computer to speak my weight." "I can do that for you, sure," enthused the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Ford was beginning to behave rather strangely, or rather not actually beginning to behave strangely but beginning to behave in a way… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“But that's not the point!" raged Ford "The point is that I am now a perfectly safe penguin, and my colleague here… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There were three of them, three police cars left askew across the road in a way that transcended mere parking. It sent… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" "I checked it very… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The phone wavered in Richard's hand. He was holding it about half an inch away from his ear anyway because it seemed… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“If you've done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Zaphod left the controls for Ford to figure out, and lurched over to Arthur. "Look, Earthman," he said angrily, "you've got a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“What did you say, Arthur?" "I said, how the hell did you get here?" "I was a row of dots flowing randomly… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except for his… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Luckily," he went on, "you have come to exactly the right place with your interesting problem, for there is no such word… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!" "The what?" said Richard. "The catflap! A device of the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for the planet they discovered only a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The first I knew about it was when a workman arrived at my home yesterday. I asked him if he'd come to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Googleplex Star Thinker is a super-computer from the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity and has the ability to calculate the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“An international power supply is the device which means it doesn't matter what country you're in, or even if you know what… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Trin Tragula—for that was his name—was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“What's the problem Earthman?" said Zaphod, now transferring his attention to the animal's enormous rump. "I just don't want to eat an… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“And what's happened to the Earth?" "Ah. It's been demolished." "Has is," said Arthur levelly. "Yes. It just boiled away into space."… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Mr Cjelli, nice to see you back, sir. Sorry you had a spot of bother, hope that's all behind you now." "Indeed,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Dirk was unused to making quite such a miniscule impact on anybody. He checked to be sure that he did have his… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you. Human beings,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“We already have the Wooden Pillar, the Steel Pillar and the Plastic Pillar. In a moment we will have the Golden Bail…'… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Share and Enjoy' is the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Division, which now covers the major land… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The idea that Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft) has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered. — Douglas Adams Copy Share
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“But Douglas was a genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, he could communicate the world he saw.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share
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You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you… — Douglas Adams Copy Share