“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the… — 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
“Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“In other words - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded -… — 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
“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
“Si los seres humanos no dejan de hacer ejercicio con los labios, su cerebro empieza a funcionar.” — 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
I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.To explain — since every… — 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
“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
What's up?" [asked Ford.] I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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“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
“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
“The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Five wild Event Maelstroms swirled in vicious storms of unreason and spewed up a pavement.” — 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
“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
“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
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
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