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“people’s natural predisposition not to see anything they don’t want to, weren’t expecting or can’t explain.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“His eyes passed over the solid shapes of the instruments and computers that lined the bridge. They winked away innocently at him. He stared out at the stars, but none of them said a word.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker S Guide to the Galaxy: Primary Phase

“Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I’m feeling just great, guys, and I know I’m just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“There is of course an extremely good reason for wearing shorts when you’re young, even in the depths of an English winter (and they were colder then, weren’t they?). According to Wired magazine, we can’t expect to see self-repairing fabrics until about the year 2020, but ever since we emerged from whatever trees or swamps we lived in five million years ago, we have had self-repairing knees.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels. 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

“Elbette ki hayatla bağlantılı pek çok mesele vardır ve işte size onların en yaygın olanlarından birkaçı: İnsanlar neden doğar? Neden ölürler? Neden bu ikisi arasında geçen zamanın büyük bir bölümünü dijital kol saatleri takarak geçirmek isterler.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed,’ it said. Its voice was low and hopeless.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn’t exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn’t cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know you’ve taken all the baths you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“If you took the whole of Norway, scrunched it up a bit, shook out all the moose and reindeer, hurled it ten thousand miles around the world, and filled it with birds, then you'd be wasting your time, because it looks very much as if someone has already done it.”
― Douglas Adams, [Last Chance to See] [By: Adams, Douglas] [November, 2009]

“The second strangest thing about the ship was watching the Somebody Else’s Problem field at work. They could now clearly see the ship for what it was simply because they knew it was there. It was quite apparent, however, that nobody else could.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term “Future Perfect” has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“On yedi yıl, üç ay, iki gün, beş saat, on dokuz dakika ve yirmi iki saniyedir birisinin bana söylediği ilk şey bu. dedi adam. Saydım.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Because of the various sensory protuberances with which the robot was festooned, it couldn’t maneuver inside the towel, and it just twitched back and forth without being able to turn and face its captor.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“It was impossible to explain why, but their smooth and sleek white bodies seemed to be the utter embodiment of clean, clinical evil.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started unexpectedly turning into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“We demand admission!”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“It had been late one night—of course. It had been a difficult day—of course. There had been soulful music playing on the ship’s sound system—of course. And he had, of course, been slightly drunk. In other words, all the usual conditions that bring on a bout of soul-searching had applied, but it had, nevertheless, clearly been an error.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Richard had trained in the Philippines, working to save the Philippines’ monkey-eating eagle, a wildly improbable-looking piece of flying hardware that you would more readily expect to see coming into land on an aircraft”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“Hükmetmek isteyenlerin hiçbirinin hükmetmesine izin verilemiyorsa, bu işi kim yapabilirdi?”
― Douglas Adams, Otostopçu'nun Galaksi Rehberi

“Otostopçunun Galaksi Rehberi her uygarlığın üç aşamadan geçtiğini söyler: Hayatta Kalma, Sorgulama ve İncelikli Düşünme, bir başka deyişle Nasıl, Neden ve Nerede aşamaları.
Rehber şöyle der: 'İlk aşama Nasıl Yiyebiliriz? sorusuyla, ikinci aşama Neden Yiyoruz sorusuyla, üçüncü aşamaysa Öğle Yemeğini Nerede Yiyelim? sorusuyla tanımlanmaktadır.”
― Douglas Adams, Otostopçu'nun Galaksi Rehberi

“Will you open up the exit hatch, please, computer?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyway, so their opinion can and should be discounted. When it’s fall in New York, the air smells as if someone’s been frying goats in it, and if you are keen to breathe, the best plan is to open a window and stick your head in a building.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“He had been told that when looking for a good oracle it was best to find the oracle that other oracles went to, but he was shut. There was a sign by the entrance saying, “I just don’t know anymore. Try next door →, but that’s just a suggestion, not formal oracular advice.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“then sat down to do what every galactic hitchhiker ends up spending most of his time doing. They waited for a flying saucer to come by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“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

“When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started unexpectedly turning into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years. Which”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Odd,” agreed Reg. “I’ve certainly never come across any irreversible mathematics involving sofas. Could be a new field.”
― 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