Douglas Adams Quotes

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where...

The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all).

This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it?...

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

God's Final Message to His Creation:'We apologize for the inconvenience.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

It’s easy to think that as a result of the extinction of the dodo, we are now sadder and wiser, but there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that we are merely sadder and better informed.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

Sorry, did I say something wrong? said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed. Here's...

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

There was a terribly ghastly silence.There was a terribly ghastly noise.There was a terribly ghastly silence.

And the most interesting natural structure?A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, an...

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

Time is bunk.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.