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

“in most cases, however, the terror was extremely short-lived, as was the person experiencing the terror.”
― Douglas Adams, The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“Richard stared in disbelief. “You say there’s a horse in your bathroom, and all you can do is stand there naming Beatles songs?”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.” This”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“a big yellow bulldozer that was advancing up his garden path.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt”
― Douglas Adams

“But it was the chance carelessness of it which particularly appealed to Dirk because words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“It turned its heavy eyes on Zaphod and clicked its beak in a desultory fashion. “Go away,” said Zaphod. “Okay,” muttered the bird morosely and flapped off into the dust again.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.”
― 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

“In my aircar,” said the old man, motioning Arthur to get into the craft which had settled silently next to them. “We are going deep into the bowels of the planet where even now our race is being revived from its five-million-year slumber.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Space,’ it says, ‘is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Now the world has gone to bed,
Darkness won't engulf my head,
I can see by infrared,
How I hate the night.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“Jeg kommer med fred,” sagde den og tilføjede efter et langt øjeblik med mere skurren, ”før mig til jeres øgle” (…)
”Den kommer fra et meget gammelt demokrati, ser du”.
”Vil det sige, at den kommer fra en øgleverden?”
”Nej”, sagde Ford (…), ”så enkelt er det ikke. Ikke tilnærmelsesvis så ligetil. I den verden er folket mennesker. Lederne er øgler. Folket hader øglerne, og det er øglerne, der regerer over folket”.
”Besynderligt”, sagde Arthur. ”Jeg syntes, du sagde, at det var et demokrati”.
”Det gjorde jeg også,” sagde Ford, ”og det er det også”.
”Hvorfor skiller folket sig så ikke bare af med øglerne?” spurgte Arthur og håbede ikke, at han lød latterligt kværulantisk.
”Det falder dem ærlig talt ikke ind”, sagde Ford. ”De har alle sammen stemmeret, så de går ligesom ud fra, at den regering, de har stemt ind, mere eller mindre svarer til den regering, de ønsker”.
”Vil de siger, at de rent faktisk stemmer på øglerne?”
”Ja, ja,” sagde Ford og trak på skuldrene, ”selvfølgelig”.
”Jamen hvorfor?” sagde Arthur og gik atter efter præmiespørgsmålet.
”For hvis de ikke stemte på en øgle, var det måske den forkerte øgle, der ville komme ind (…) Nogle siger, at øglerne er det bedste, der nogensinde er hændt dem. De tager selvfølgelig fejl, tager fuldstændig og aldeles fejl, men nogen er jo nødt til at sige det”.
”Jamen, det er jo frygteligt,” sagde Arthur.
”Ved du hvad, kammerat? Hvis jeg havde fået en altariansk dollar for hver gang, jeg har hørt nogen i en del af universet kaste et blik på nogen i en anden del af universet og sige, 'jamen, det er jo frygteligt', sad jeg ikke her og opførte mig som en citron, der leder efter noget gin. Men det har jeg ikke, og det gør jeg”.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“He started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this. Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.”
― Douglas Adams

“He tossed over The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and then curled up into a foetal ball to prepare himself for the jump. At that moment the bottom fell out of Arthur’s mind.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy of Five

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams

“Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built, and we’ve got to build another one.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“You know,’ said Arthur, ‘it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, 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.’ ‘Oh.’ Ford carried on humming.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“If he was asked at this moment where he would like to be he would probably have said he would like to be lying on the beach with at least fifty beautiful women and a small team of experts working out new ways they could be nice to him, which was his usual reply. To this he would probably have added something passionate on the subject of food.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Işığın adeta yüzdüğü her şafak vaktinde büyülü bir olasılık anı vardır. Yaratılış tam o sırada nefesini tutmuştur.”
― Douglas Adams, Otostopçu'nun Galaksi Rehberi

“This was a public telephone so it was clearly an oversight that it was working at all.”
― 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

“the occasional new ploy such as the For the Public Good talk, or the March of Progress talk, the They Knocked My House Down Once You Know, Never Looked Back talk and various other cajoleries and threats; and it was the bulldozer drivers’ accepted role to sit around drinking coffee and experimenting with union regulations to see how they could turn the situation to their financial advantage.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Total Perspektif Girdabı'nın bu kadar dehşet verici olmasının nedeni de işte budur. Çünkü Girdap'a girdiğinizde, bir an için tüm yaradılışın akıllara sığmayan sonsuzluğuyla karşı karşıya kalır ve bu sonsuzluğun bir yerlerinde bulunan mikroskobik bir noktanın üzerindeki mikroskobik bir noktaya konulmuş minicik işaret levhasındaki "Buradasınız?" yazısını görürsünüz.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.’ Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
― Douglas Adams

“Lightning belted through the sky, and someone seemed to be pouring something which closely resembled the Atlantic Ocean over them, through a sieve.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“But that’s incredible.” “No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable.” “Er, yeah.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“People often ask me how they can leave the planet, so I have prepared some brief notes.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Herhangi bir şekilde gördüğün, yaşadığın veya duyduğun bir şey sana özeldir. Kendi algılayış şeklinle kendine bir Evren yaratırsın. Bu nedenle Evrende algıladığın her şey sana özeldir.”
― Douglas Adams, Otostopçu'nun Galaksi Rehberi

“My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber,” he muttered to himself, “and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.” Nevertheless,”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“No government owns it,” snapped the robot, “it’s been stolen.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy