1,082 Quotes by Douglas Adams

Aberystwyth (n.)A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

E' sbagliato pensare di risolvere grossi problemi con il solo ausilio delle patate fritte.

A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff.

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.

You are a driver," he said, "and I use the word in the loosest possible sense, i.e.meaning merely somebody who occupies the driving seat of what I will for themoment call - but I use the term strictly without prejudice - a car while it isproceeding along the road, of stupendous, I would even say verging on thesuperhuman, lack of skill. Do you catch my drift?

Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you travelled. This will come to you as a profound personal shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.