Douglas Adams

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

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

Men were real men, women were real women, and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. Spirits were brave, men boldly split infinitives that no man had split before. Thus was the Empire forged.

This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

With a rubber duck, one's never alone.

Istnieje teoria, która stwierdza, że jeśli ktokolwiek odkryje dokładnie, czym jest Wszechświat i dlaczego jest tutaj, natychmiast zniknie i zostanie zastąpiony czymś jeszcze dziwniejszym i niewytłumaczalnym. stało się.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. happened.

Domagamy się ścisłego zdefiniowania obszarów zwątpienia i niepewności.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

I'd like to say a big 'hello' to all you intelligent lifeforms out there, and for the rest of you, the trick is to bang those rocks together, guys!

Listen three eyes," he said," don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." -

We will rediscover a ˇNew York City river so extravagantly polluted that new life forms will emerge from it spontaneously, demanding welfare and voting rights.

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: If you know how fast you're driving, you must be lost.

Don't panic!

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. (from Mostly Harmless)

Istoty ludzkie, które są niemal wyjątkowe w posiadaniu umiejętności uczenia się na doświadczeniach innych, są również godne uwagi ze względu na ich ewidentny brak inklinacji do tego.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Czas jest złudzeniem, ale czas na posiłek raczej już nie.

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...

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 in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not.

In tribute to David Gerard Cohen, rest well Best of all he liked to sleep. Sleeping was a very important activity for him. He liked to sleep for longish periods, great swathes of time. Merely sleeping overnight was not taking the business seriously. He enjoyed a good night's sleep and wouldn't miss one for the world, but found it as anything halfway near enough. He liked to be asleep by half-past eleven in the morning if possible, and if that should come directly after a nice leisurely lie-in then so much the better. A little light breakfast and a quick trip to the bathroom while fresh linen was applied to his bed is really all the activity he liked to undertake, and he took care that it didn't janate the sleepiness out of him and disturb his afternoon of napping. Sometimes he was able to spend an entire week asleep, and this he regarded as a good snooze. He had also slept through the whole of 1986 and hadn't missed it.