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“Böylece tarihin pek çok bölümü artık tamamen ortadan kalkmış oluyordu. Gerçek Zaman Seferberliğine katılanların savına göre, yolculuk yapmak nasıl ülkeler ve dünyalar arasındaki farklılıkları kolayca ortadan kaldırıyorsa, zaman yolculuğu da bir çağla diğeri arasındaki farklılıkları ortadan kaldırıyordu. 'Geçmiş,' diyorlardı, 'artık gerçekten de yabancı bir ülkeden farksız. Orada da işler aynı buradaki gibi yürüyor.”
― Douglas Adams, Otostopçu'nun Galaksi Rehberi

“That’s right!” agreed Majikthise. “You’ll have a national Philosophers’ strike on your hands!” The”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Üzüntü ve şaşkınlık içinde başını salladığını duyabiliyorum. Ama endişelenme. Her şey hoş bir şekilde zıvanadan çıkıyor.”
― Douglas Adams, Three book set, includes The Salmon of Doubt, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“... nearly forcing him into the path of a cyclist, who cursed and swore at him from a moral high ground that cyclists alone seem able to inhabit.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently: The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatization

“Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.” “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 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Fuori della porta si sentivano chiaramente dei passi pesanti. – I dentrassi? – sussurrò Arthur. – No, questi sono stivali dalla punta d’acciaio – disse Ford. Si sentì bussare con prepotenza alla porta. – E allora chi è? – disse Arthur – Be’ – disse Ford – se siamo fortunati sono solo i vogon che vengono a prenderci per buttarci nello spazio. – E se siamo sfortunati? – Se siamo sfortunati – disse cupo Ford – il comandante potrebbe avere fatto le sue minacce seriamente, e avere intenzione di leggerci prima qualcuna delle sue poesie…”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Then he had thought about what his position actually was and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Shee, you guys are so unhip it’s a wonder your bums don’t fall off.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Zark off.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Los Angeles, which is described in the new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in one entry as “junky, wunky, lunky, stunky, and what’s that other word, and all kinds of bad stuff, woo,”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“And Mrs Roberts? How is she? Foot still troubling her?”

“Not since she had it off, thanks for asking, sir. Between you and me, sir, I would’ve been just as happy to have had her amputated and kept the foot. I had a little spot reserved on the mantelpiece, but there we are, we have to take things as we find them.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“His first theory was that if human beings didn’t keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this—“If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“For the next two weeks I took up playing in the traffic, being careless with kitchen knives, and neglecting to stand clear of the doors on station platforms, but, sadly, I led a charmed life, and I had to go through with it: four weeks of the greatest humiliation and embarrassment known to man or, rather, to that most easily humiliated and embarrassed of all creatures, the overgrown twelve-year-old boy.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Едно от най-големите затруднения, които Трилиън срещаше при взаимоотношенията си със Зейфод, идваше от това, че все още не се бе научила да познава кога се прави на глупак просто за да приспи вниманието на хората, кога се прави на глупак, защото го мързи да мисли и иска някой друг да върши това вместо него, кога се прави на ужасен глупак, за да скрие факта, че всъщност нищо не разбира, и кога е наистина един неподправен глупак.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Encyclopedia Galáctica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colorless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms. The Hitchhiker’s”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“But she was finding it increasingly easy to believe that God, if there was a God, and if it was remotely possible that any godlike being who could order the disposition of particles at the creation of the Universe would also be interested in directing traffic on the M4, did not want her to fly to Norway either.”
― Douglas Adams

“A thin whine filled the air. It whirled and howled through the trees, upsetting the squirrels. A few birds flew off in disgust. The noise danced and skittered round the clearing. It whooped, it rasped, it generally offended. The Captain, however, regarded the lone bagpiper with an indulgent eye.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Sen nasıl-'
'Sana söyleyemem.'
'Niçin? Bütün bu yolu bunun için geldim.'
'Sen benim gördüğümü göremezsin, çünkü kendi gördüğünü görüyorsun. Benim bildiğimi bilemezsin, çünkü kendi bildiklerini biliyorsun. Benim gördüklerim ve bildiklerim senin gördüklerin ve bildiklerine eklenemez, çünkü aynı cinsten şeyler değiller. Ne de senin gördüklerin ve bildiklerinle değiştirilebilir, çünkü bu senin kendini değiştirmen anlamına gelecektir.”
― Douglas Adams, Otostopçu'nun Galaksi Rehberi

“Shall I leave the window open or would you like to try the door?” she said with a sniff.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“That’s the point, it’s out of date now,”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Numbers written on restaurant checks within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single statement took the scientific world by storm. It completely revolutionized it. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure and the science of math was put back by years. Slowly,”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“First you had to fight the Stones fans, which was tricky because they fought dirty and had their knuckles nearer the ground.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“-Si hay algo más importante por ahí que mi vanidad, quiero atraparlo ahora mismo y pegarle un tiro.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase

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― Douglas Adams, 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams

“As I watched the wind ruffling over the bilious surface of the Yangtze, I realised with the vividness of shock that somewhere beneath or around me there were intelligent animals whose perceptive universe we could scarcely begin to imagine, living in a seething, poisoned, deafening world, and that their lives were probably passed in continual bewilderment, hunger, pain, and fear.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

“This is probably the best button to press.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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― Douglas Adams, Douglas Adams Live in Concert

“The story so far:
In the beginning, the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Book 1 of 3

“Where on Betelgeuse is that robot?" Asked Ford.

"Perhaps he's behind one of these doors," said Arthur in his best 'I'll offer a solution but someone else can follow it up type voice.”
― Douglas Adams, Not a book