I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not… — 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… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven… — 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
The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it… — 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
Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are… — 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