Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape.… — 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
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
I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if… — 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