Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next. — 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
Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and… — 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
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well… — 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
He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave… — 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“But Douglas was a genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, he could communicate the world he saw.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
