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“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

“Jedna od stvari koje Ford Prefekt nije uspeo da shvati kod ljudi bila je navika da neprekidno govore i ponavljaju vrlo, vrlo očigledne stvari, kao što su "Baš lep dan danas" ili "Jao što si visok" ili "O bože, pala si niz bunar dubok trideset metara, jesi li se povredila?". Ford je stvorio teoriju da objasni to neobično ponašanje. Kada ljudska bića ne bi neprekidno otvarala usne, bio je ubeđen, usta bi im verovatno srasla. Nakon nekoliko meseci posmatranja i razmišljanja napustio je tu teoriju u korist druge. Ukoliko ne pokreću neprekidno svoje usne, pomislio je, mozak počinje da im radi. Nakon izvesnog vremena napustio je i tu teoriju kao previše ciničnu i došao do zaključka da mu se ljudska bića i pored svega veoma sviđaju, ali bio je zabrinut zato što o tolikim stvarima pojma nisu imala.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“(“I love deadlines,” he said once. “I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.”)”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God. “The argument goes something like this: ‘I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, ‘for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.’ “ ‘But,’ says Man, ‘the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.’ “ ‘Oh dear,’ says God, ‘I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. “ ‘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 zebra 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.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“In fact, vertigo is explained by some not as the fear of falling, but as the temptation to jump!”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“This was perfectly true, and a very respectable view widely held by right-thinking people, who are largely recognizable as being right-thinking people by the mere fact that they hold this view.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“Se gli umani non si esercitano in continuazione a parlare, il loro cervello rischia di mettersi a funzionare”
― Douglas Adams, Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti

“The people who have got this spectacularly right so far are the guys at Amazon. You go to their site because it’s awash with shared information. The more information there is, the more people go there, and the more people go there, the more information they generate, and the more books Amazon sells. Of course, they are not afraid of open debate because, unlike BMW, they are not responsible for the product they sell. It will take BMW and British Airways a long time and a big deep breath to realise that they are part of the community they sell to.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“You're very sure of your facts,' he said at last. 'I couldn't trust the thinking of a man who takes the Universe - if there is one - for granted.'
Zarniwoop still quivered, but was silent.
'I only decide about my Universe,' continued the man quietly. 'My Universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.'
'But don't you believe in anything?'
The man shrugged and picked up his cat.
'I don't understand what you mean,' he said.
'You don't understand that what you decide in the this shack of yours affects the lives and fates of millions of people? This is all monstrously wrong!'
'I don't know. I've never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universe of their eyes and ears.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“So what's the point of showing me something I can't see?'
'So that you understand that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“... ama hiçbir şey ummamak bu gerçekten doğal olamazdı, değil mi? Bu nefes almamak gibi bir şeydi.”
― Douglas Adams, Otostopçu'nun Galaksi Rehberi

“Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost for ever.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Questo pianeta ha, o meglio aveva, un fondamentale problema: la maggior parte dei suoi abitanti erano infatti afflitti da una quasi costante infelicità. Per risolvere il problema di questa infelicità furono suggerite varie proposte, ma queste per lo più concernevano lo scambio continuo di pezzetti di carta verde, un fatto indubbiamente strano, visto che ad essere infelici non erano i pezzetti di carta verde, ma gli abitanti del pianeta.”
― Adams Douglas