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
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“She tried to worry that something terrible had happened to him, but didn't believe it for a moment. Nothing terrible ever happened… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl howl gargle howl gargle howl howl gargle gargle howl gargle gargle gargle howl slurrp uuuurgh… — 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
“NO ADMITTANCE. NOT EVEN TO AUTHORISED PERSONNEL. YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE. GO AWAY.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term “Future… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Time blossomed, matter shrank away. The highest prime number coalesced quietly in a corner and hid itself away for ever.” — 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
Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about… — 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
“There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When the hunt for new sources of energy had at one point got particularly frantic, one bright young chap suddenly spotted that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Well, you look well on it.' 'I feel well. You look well.' 'I'm well. I'm very well.' 'Well, that's good.' 'Yes.' 'Good.'… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
One nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Kate wondered for a moment how it was that eyes conveyed such an immense amount of information about their owners. They were,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Virtually everything we were told in Indonesia turned out not to be true, sometimes almost immediately. The only exception to this was… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment." I've seen it. It's rubbish," said Zaphod,"nothing but a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“At that moment the dull sound of a rumbling crash from outside filtered through the low murmur of the pub, through the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew… — 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