We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it. — 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
I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV… — 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
He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted… — 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
Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been… — 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
You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'Yeah,' said Zaphod, 'but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' 'THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'No, just… — 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
I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Richard continued, “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if… — 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