A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never… — 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
The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Shh!" said Ford. "It's conical. So what you do is, you see, you fill it with fine white sand, alright? Or sugar.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It said that the major activities pursued on NowWhat were those of catching, skinning, and eating of the NowWhattian boghogs, which were… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Sorry, did I say something wrong?" said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from… — 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