The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA , then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He… — 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
When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The story goes that I first had the idea for The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
One day old Thrashbarg said that Almighty Bob had declared that he, Thrashbarg, was to have first pick of the sandwiches. The… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of… — 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