1,082 Quotes by Douglas Adams

The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.

I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!

Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.

Don’t Panic.

My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it’s going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

I can see we’re in for a fabulous evening’s apocalypse.

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.

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.