“Richard had trained in the Philippines, working to save the Philippines’ monkey-eating eagle, a wildly improbable-looking piece of flying hardware that you… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate!” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“They consulted the computer. It said: “I regret I have been temporarily closed to all communication. Meanwhile, here is some light music.”… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Well, what we called a computer in 1977 was really a kind of electric abacus, but…” “Oh, now, don’t underestimate the abacus,”… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The computers were index-linked to the Galactic stock-market prices, you see, so that we’d all be revived when everybody else had rebuilt… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“You just let the machines get on with the adding up,” warned Majikthise, “and we’ll take care of the eternal verities, thank… — 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
“Listen, you machine,” he said, “you claim you can synthesize any drink in existence, so why do you keep giving me the… — 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
“You have a time machine and you use it for... watching television?" "Well, I wouldn't use it at all if I could… — 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
We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“You see, Earthman, they really are particularly clever hyper-intelligent pandimensional beings. Your planet and people have formed the matrix of an organic… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us...."… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“He sat and tapped his teeth with a pencil again and watched his sofa slowly revolving on the screen of his computer.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
"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 Image
“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image