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“One of the greatest benefactors of all lifekind was a man who couldn’t keep his mind on the job at hand. Brilliant? Certainly.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Táto okolnosť sa môže bez problémov stať predmetom napätia, pretože nie je absolútne ničím dôležitá.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“He turned it and turned it. They could see quite clearly in the fine tracery of its etchwork the words “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Life is wasted on the living.’ ”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Ghastly gray light congealed on the land”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy—not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months’ consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don’t keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“People who talk to themselves on the phone,” said Ford, “never learn anything to their advantage.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’ ”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Coisas terríveis, incompreensíveis – gritou –, coisas que deixariam qualquer homem louco! Olhou para eles assustado. – Ou, no meu caso – acrescentou –, meio louco. Sou um jornalista.”
― Douglas Adams, A vida, o universo e tudo mais

“The impossible did not bother him unduly. If it could not possibly be done, then obviously it had been done impossibly.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently: The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatization

“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, Douglas Adams' the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Authorized Collection

“What do you mean, why’s it got to be built?’ he said. ‘It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Once something actually happens somewhere in something as wildly complicated as the Universe, Kevin knows where it will all end up—where “Kevin” is any random entity that doesn’t know nothin’ about nothin’.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“In the beginning the Universe was created.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Hey, er, hand me the raprod, Plate Captain.” The”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I know that astrology isn’t a science,” said Gail. “Of course it isn’t. It’s just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis or—what’s that strange thing you British play?” “Er, cricket? Self-loathing?” “Parliamentary democracy.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Infinite Universe: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger
than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow,
that's big" time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks
really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is
the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.”
― Douglas Adams

“Zaphod! Wake up!’ ‘Mmmmmwwwwwerrrrr?’ ‘Hey, come on, wake up.’ ‘Just let me stick to what I’m good at, yeah?’ muttered Zaphod and rolled away from the voice back to sleep.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Zaphod! Wake up!” “Mmmmmwwwwwerrrr?” “Hey, come on, wake up.” “Just let me stick to what I’m good at, yeah?” muttered Zaphod, and rolled away from the voice back to sleep. “Do you want me to kick you?” said Ford. “Would it give you a lot of pleasure?” said Zaphod, blearily. “No.” “Nor me. So what’s the point? Stop bugging me.” Zaphod curled himself up.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“This,” he said, “really is the absolute end, the final chilling desolation, in which the whole majestic sweep of creation becomes extinct. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the proverbial ‘it.’ ” He dropped his voice still lower. In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear its throat. “After this,” he said, “there is nothing. Void. Emptiness. Oblivion. Absolute nothing….”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Maybe. Who cares?” said Slartibartfast before Arthur got too excited. “Perhaps I’m old and tired,” he continued, “but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Olayların her zaman göründüğü gibi olmadığı önemli ve yaygın bir gerçektir.”
― Douglas Adams, Guide to the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“What . . . do . . . you . . . want?’ ‘I’m looking for someone.’ ‘Who?’ hissed the insect. ‘Zaphod Beeblebrox,’ said Marvin, ‘he’s over there.’ The insect shook with rage. It could hardly speak. ‘Then why did you ask me?’ it screamed. ‘I just wanted something to talk to,’ said Marvin. ‘What!’ ‘Pathetic, isn’t it?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy of Five

“Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“He sat on a step, took from his satchel a bottle of that Ol’ Janx Spirit and a towel. He opened the bottle and wiped the top of it with the towel, which had the opposite effect to the one intended, in that the Ol’ Janx Spirit instantly killed off millions of the germs which had been slowly building up quite a complex and enlightened civilization on the smellier patches of his towel.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“her remark would have commanded greater attention had it been generally realized that human beings were only the third most intelligent life form present on the planet Earth,”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The ship did. All by itself.” “Huh?” “While we were in Improbability Drive.” “But that’s incredible.” “No, Zaphod. Just very very improbable.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“He dreamed at one point in his slumbers of New York. In his dreams he was walking late at night along the East Side, beside the river which had become so extravagantly polluted that new life forms were now emerging from it spontaneously, demanding welfare and voting rights.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Oh, that was easy,’ says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next pedestrian crossing. “Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo’s kidneys, but that didn’t stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best-selling book, Well That about Wraps It Up for God. “Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy