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“The room was much as Slartibartfast had described it. In seven and a half million years it had been well looked after and cleaned regularly every century or so. The ultramahogany desk was worn at the edges, the carpet a little faded now, but the large computer terminal sat in sparkling glory on the desk’s leather top, as bright as if it had been constructed yesterday.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.’ ‘Why, what did she tell you?’ ‘I don’t know, I didn’t listen.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Bir BBS dedi, bizim göremediğimiz veya görmediğimiz ya da beynimizin görmemize izin vermediği bir şeydir, çünkü onun başka birinin sorunu olduğunu düşünürüz. İşte BBS'nin anlamı budur. Başka Birinin Sorunu. Beyin onu hemen yok eder, o adeta kör bir noktadır. Eğer ona doğrudan bakarsan, tam olarak ne olduğunu bilmediğin sürece hiçbir şey göremezsin. Tek şansın göz ucuyla onu gafil avlamaktır.”
― Douglas Adams

“A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and a large number of its practitioners spend too many nights drowning their problems in Ouisghian Zodahs.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I decided to call him Ford Prefect. (This was a joke that missed American audiences entirely, of course, since they had never heard of the rather oddly named little car, and many thought it was a typing error for Perfect.) I explained in the text that the minimal research my alien character had done before arriving on this planet had led him to think that this name would be “nicely inconspicuous.” He had simply mistaken the dominant life form.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Funny", he intoned funerally, "how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts

“Now I lay me down to sleep,
Try to count electric sheep.
Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
How I hate the night.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“Mr L. Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based bipedal life form descended from an ape.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I don’t go around gratuitously shooting people and then bragging about it afterward in seedy space-rangers bars, like some cops I could mention! I go around shooting people gratuitously and then I agonize about it afterward for hours to my girlfriend!”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“En ese caso debemos estar locos. - No es mal día para estarlo.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts

“One, a young man, was tall, thin and angular; even muffled inside a heavy dark coat he walked a little like an affronted heron. The”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“If such a thing is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite
improbability.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Na Terra (...) o problema eram os carros. As desvantagens envolvidas em arrancar toneladas de gosma preta e viscosa do subsolo, onde a tal gosma tinha ficado escondida em segurança e longe de todo mal, transformá-la em piche para cobrir o chão, fumaça para infestar o ar e espalhar o resto pelo mar, tudo isso parecia anular as aparentes vantagens de se poder viajar mais rápido de um lugar para outro. Especialmente quando o lugar a que se chegava tinha ficado, por conta dessa coisa toda, muito parecido com o lugar de que se tinha saído, ou seja, coberto de piche, cheio de fumaça e com poucos peixes.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the end of the universe

“Charming man,’ he said. ‘I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry one . .”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy of Five

“Oda aynen bıraktığı gibiydi, yani cerahat toplamış bir dağınıklık içindeydi, ama bununla birlikte herşeyin üzerini kaplayan kalın toz tabakası bu etkiyi bir parça olsun bastırıyordu. Yarı okunmuş kitaplar ve dergiler, yarı kullaılmış havlular arasında yuvarlanmıştı. Öbür teki kaybolmuş çoraplar, yarı içilmiş kahve fincanlarına yaslanmaktaydı. Bir zamanlar yarı yenmiş bir sandviç olan şey, şimdi yarı yarıya Arthur'un ne olduğunu asla bilmek istemediği bir şeye dönüşmüştü. Bu yığının üzerine bir şimşek gönderirseniz diye düşündü kendi kendine, hayat döngünüsü yeniden başlatabilirdiniz.”
― Douglas Adams

“The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won’t. That is not what “accident” means. The accident that eventually occurred was not what he had planned at all.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.”
― Douglas Adams, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Book 1 of 3

“Wowbagger grunted. He watched the majesty of creation outside his window for a moment or two. “I think I’ll take a nap,” he said, and then added, “What network areas are we going to be passing through in the next few hours?” The computer beeped. “Cosmovid, Thinkpix and Home Brain Box,” it said, and beeped. “Any movies I haven’t seen thirty thousand times already?” “No.” “Uh.” “There’s Angst in Space. You’ve only seen that thirty-three thousand five hundred and seventeen times.” “Wake me for the second reel.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“There had been a nasty moment when his life had flashed before his eyes but he had been too preoccupied with falling and had missed all the good bits.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“it was only the normal Angst that periodically takes undergraduates into its grip, particularly when they have essays to write, but it had seemed a dark and savage weight at the time.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.” “Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.” “I did,” said Ford. “It is.” “So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?” “It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Does that matter at this stage?” shouted Arthur.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The life cycle of ratchet screwdriver fruit is quite interesting.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I stole it to look for a lot of things.” “A lot of things?” said Ford in surprise. “Like what?” “I don’t know.” “What?” “I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “Why not?” “Because…because…I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.” “What, are you crazy?” “It’s a possibility I haven’t ruled out yet,” said Zaphod quietly. “I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“something was going on. His finger shot upward. “What the hell’s that?” he”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Ford even began to whistle, which was probably his mistake. Nobody likes a whistler,”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy