1,082 Quotes by Douglas Adams

It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.

It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer...

He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.

We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win." "I care about lots of things," said Slartibartfast, his voice trembling partly with annoyance, but partly also with uncertainty. "Such as?" "Well," said the old man, "life, the Universe. Everything, really. Fjords." "Would you die for them?" "Fjords?" blinked Slartibartfast in surprise. "No." "Well then." "Wouldn't see the point, to be honest.

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".

The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.