Douglas Adams Quotes

It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount ...

OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is sto...

A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the s...

Share and Enjoy' is the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Compla...

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they act...

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer...

I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name...

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were un...

Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer fee...

It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged ...

You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have...

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet g...

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

I wanted to join Footlights,” he says. “I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact ...

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported...

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

He recalls a lot of family worry about what he was going to do, and while he still sent in the occas...

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

We started to collect more and more of these words and concepts, and began to realize what an arbitr...

Incidentally, am I alone in finding the expression “it turns out” to be incredibly useful? It allows...

This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interestin...

When the hunt for new sources of energy had at one point got particularly frantic, one bright young ...

[..] when we get down to the subatomic level, the solid world we live in also consists, again rather...

I don’t know why we keep building these fucking dams,” Adams said in a surprisingly forceful British...

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do ...

Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you ...

In fact it was altogether an odd dog, of uncertain breed, or breeds. It was large and black, but its...

Time travel? I believe there are people regularly travelling back from the future and interfering wi...

But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn’t he...

This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interestin...

So what part did I play in all this? Well, none really. They completely ignored me for the whole twe...

I was once in San Francisco, and I parked in the only available space, which happened to be on the o...

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to t...

The insurance companies involved had all claimed that this was, by any reasonable standards, an act ...

My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died stan...

There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or...

For Children: You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simp...

Jane, who is much better at reading guide books than I am (I always read them on the way back to see...

Adams has done a bit of everything, from radio to television to designing computer games. Not all of...

We have a saying up here. ‘Life is wasted on the living.

Perhaps they are singing songs to you,' he said, 'and I just think they’re asking me questions.' He ...

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition ofthe word "Infinite".Infinite: Bigger ...

The waiter approached.'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet the Dish...

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he rea...

A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense fr...

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and ...

You know because you’ve been it, and I know because I’m dead and it gives one such a wonderfully unc...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over academic abstraction, pausing only to note t...

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.Again the pause. 'Oh...

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its pract...

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter in...

The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.

He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play some...

Zaphod had never heard of this. He believed that he had heard of all the fun things in the Galaxy, s...

One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or moth...

Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”“Yeah,” said the voice from under the table...

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.

The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry ...

It is a West zone planet which by an inexplicable and somewhat suspicious freak of topography consis...

If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.

Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.

Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to y...

He wondered if it was safe to grin. Very slowly and carefully, he grinned. It was safe.

In an infinite Universe anything can happen," said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true.

Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter i...

And so the Universe ended.

This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would ...

He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come th...

Reality is frequently inaccurate.

His eyes passed over the solid shapes of the instruments and computers that lined the bridge. They w...

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and wh...

One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own f...

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has this to say about the planet of Golgafrincham: it is a plan...

Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, b...

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems wi...

After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.

Life is wasted on the living.

Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you’re so weird you should be in movies.;'Yea...

It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter ...

ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror b...

City of Vassillian a party of five sage princes with four horses. The princes, who are of course bra...

The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they we...

But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment."I've seen it. It's rubbish," said...

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't ...

Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics...

Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it.

Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the...

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As prett...

But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of i...

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never ...

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-gu...

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - ...

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fulln...

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas ...

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arri...

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as ...