Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Dirk Gently is the name under which I now trade. There are certain events in the past, I'm afraid, from which I… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I have detected," he said, "disturbances in the wash." ... Arthur asked him to repeat what he had just said because he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this?… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“If," ["the management consultant"] said tersely, “we could for a moment move on to the subject of fiscal policy. . .” “Fiscal… — 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
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
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
“NO ADMITTANCE. NOT EVEN TO AUTHORISED PERSONNEL. YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE. GO AWAY.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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