“Well, sir, I think it's just as well that they are being phased out of the war effort, and that we are… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When the girl sitting at the next table looked away for a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“After a moment or two a man in brown crimplene looked in at us, did not at all like the look of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“If you don’t open that exit hatch this moment I shall zap straight off to your major data banks and reprogram you… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering. It… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“You have a time machine and you use it for... watching television?" "Well, I wouldn't use it at all if I could… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever. — 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
Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“These muddles were as nothing to the ones which historians had to try and unravel once time trouble was discovered and battles… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The man next to Ford grinned and nodded happily. Ford ignored him. He said, “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“So, like I said, these are a bunch of really sweet guys, but you wouldn't want to share a Galaxy with them,… — 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