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“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

“If it could not possibly be done, then obviously it had been done impossibly. The question was how?”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul

“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

“most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“as he drove on, the rain clouds dragged down the sky after him for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him and to water him.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“The immensity of time worried him, he could feel it as a presence.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“¿Dónde fotones has estado?”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“¡No quiero morir todavía! ¡Aún me duele la cabeza, estaré de mal humor y no lo disfrutaré!”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“what is he, man or mouse? Is he interested in nothing more than tea and the wider issues of life? Has he no spirit? Has he no passion? Does he not, to put it in a nutshell, fuck?”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Late, as in the late Dentarthurdent,” said the old man, sternly.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“This is all very wonderful,” said Fenchurch a few days later, “but I do need to know what has happened to me. You see, there’s this difference between us. That you lost something and found it again, and I found something and lost it. I need to find it again.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“E então, numa quinta-feira, quase dois mil anos depois que um homem foi pregado num pedaço de madeira por ter dito que seria ótimo se as pessoas fossem legais umas com as outras pra variar, uma garota, sozinha numa pequena lanchonete em Rickmansworth, de repente compreendeu o que tinha dado errado esse tempo todo e finalmente descobriu como o mundo poderia se tornar um lugar bom e feliz.”
― Douglas Adams, Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 1 of 3

“I have no memory of him talking,’ said the man, ‘but I am very unreliable.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy of Five