I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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… — 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
“One of the main problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making… — 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
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care,… — 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
Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going… — 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
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