But unless we determine to take action,' said the old man querulously, as if struggling against something deeply insouciant in his nature, 'then we shall all be destroyed, we shall all die. Surely we care about that?' 'Not enough to want to get killed over it,' said Ford.

— Douglas Adams

But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment." I've seen it. It's rubbish," said Zap hod,"nothing but a grab GIB." A what?" Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.

— Douglas Adams

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

— Douglas Adams

Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struck Sutherland)

— Douglas Adams

City of Castilian a party of five sage princes with four horses. The princes, who are of course brave, noble and wise, travel widely in distant lands, fight giant ogres, pursue exotic philosophies, take tea with weird gods and rescue beautiful monsters from ravening princesses before finally announcing that they have achieved enlightenment and that their wanderings are therefore accomplished. The second, and much longer, part of each song would then tell of all their bickering about which one of them is going to have to walk back. All this lay in the planet’s remote past.

— Douglas Adams

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you, or I wouldn't recognize. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all the things we use.

— Douglas Adams

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you, or I wouldn't recognize. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all the things we use.

— Douglas Adams

Conceited little mega-puppy.

— Douglas Adams

Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”“Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces, so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.

— Douglas Adams

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as its fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.

— Douglas Adams