“He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“For instance, a race of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings once built themselves a gigantic supercomputer called Deep Thought to calculate once and for… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to… — 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