2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to… — 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
I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is… — 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
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the… — 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
Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time… — 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
The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth. — 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
The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species… — 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
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
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing! — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The… — 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