Douglas Adams Quotes

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn’t there… what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe […]

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

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

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

It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars and so on – whilst all the dolphins had ever done […]

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

It’s no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase “As pretty as an airport” appear.

The story goes that I first had the idea for THHGTTGalaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.