Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them… — 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
[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the… — 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
What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really… — 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
Our favourite item was the balcony that overlooked the sea because it had an awning that you lowered by pressing an electric… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo? — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which… — 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