If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. — 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 Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel… — 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… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn’t the forces of… — 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
We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs… — 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
Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Religion ... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. What it means is,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will… — 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