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“And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and so the idea was lost, seemingly for ever. This is her story.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“It hadn’t properly registered yet with Arthur that the council wanted to knock it down and build a bypass instead.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Don’t Panic.’ It’s the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody’s said to me all day.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The history of every major galactic civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Enquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. ‘For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat?, the second by the question Why do we eat?, and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Besides, she told herself, taking a deep breath, if life had taught her anything it was this: Never go back for your bag.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“THE FOLLOWING MORNING the weather was so foul it hardly deserved the name, and Dirk decided to call it Stanley instead.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“The other was small, roundish, and moved with an ungainly restlessness, like a number of elderly squirrels trying to escape from a sack. His own age was on the older side of completely indeterminate. If”
― 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

“You certainly don't fuck about trying to ride manta rays.”
― Douglas Adams

“looked excitingly purposeful, with large video screens ranged over the control and guidance system panels on the concave wall, and long banks of computers set into the convex wall. In one corner a robot sat humped,”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Do normálu sa vrátime ihneď ako stanovíme čo je vlastne normálne.”
― Douglas Adams

“Mantık belki iyi bir şeydi, ama evrim sürecinin de keşfettiği gibi birtakım sakıncalarının olduğu da bir gerçekti.
Mantıklı düşünebilen herhangi bir şeyin en az kendisi kadar mantıklı düşünebilen bir başka şey tarafından kolayca aldatılabilmesi mümkündü.”
― Douglas Adams, Otostopçu'nun Galaksi Rehberi

“Any time you see a film or TV show or a commercial that features someone dressed up as an animal, it’s probably Todd inside. “I was in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” he told me. “Guess,” he added, “which one I was.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001. After Douglas died, the movie of Hitchhiker moved out of development hell into the clear uplands of production, using much of Douglas’s original script and ideas. Douglas shares the writing credit for the movie with Karey Kirkpatrick.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“He looked up at the sky, which was sullen, streaked and livid, and reflected that it was the sort of sky that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse wouldn’t feel like a bunch of complete idiots riding out of.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“no one was really poor—at least no one worth speaking of.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Sonsuz bir evrende her şey mümkündür, dedi. hatta kurtuluş bile,,,”
― Douglas Adams, By Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Box set

“I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed,’ it said.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy of Five

“The ship had come sweeping in over a dark and somber landscape, a terrain so desperately far removed from the heat and light of its parent sun, Sol, that it seemed like a map of the psychological scars of the mind of an abandoned child.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Will you please leave whelks out of it?”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Ford grasped him by the lapels of his dressing gown and spoke to him as slowly and distinctly and patiently as if he were somebody from the telephone company accounts department.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything, The Authorized Collection: 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, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“(Hablando del Universo)

Población: Ninguna.

Es sabido que existe un número infinito de mundos, sencillamente porque hay una cantidad infinita de espacio para que todos se asienten en él. Sin embargo, no todos están habitados. Por tanto, debe haber número finito de mundos habitados. Un número finito dividido por infinito se aproxima lo suficiente a la nada para que no haya diferencia, de manera que puede afirmarse que la población media de todos los planetas del Universo es cero. De ello se desprende que la población media de todo el Universo también es cero, y que todas las personas con que uno pueda encontrarse de vez en cuando no son más que el producto de una imaginación trastornada.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them.
On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.”
― Douglas Adams

“During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem ‘Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning’ four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been ‘disappointed’ by the poem’s reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and civilization, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. 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 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Oh dear,’ says God, ‘I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.”
― Douglas Adams

“went back on to the bridge to watch over the tiny flashing lights and figures that charted the ship’s progress through the void.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“said Ford, “you’ve got three pints to get through.” “Three pints?” said Arthur. “At lunchtime?” The man next to Ford grinned and nodded happily. Ford ignored him.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“We’ve got to talk,’ he said urgently. ‘Fine,’ said Arthur, ‘talk.’ ‘And drink,’ said Ford. ‘It’s vitally important that we talk and drink. Now.”
― Douglas Adams, The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five