53 Quotes About Douglas-adams

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition ofthe word "Infinite".Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some.Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, atotally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just sobig that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy.Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringlyhuge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Now," said Benjy mouse, "to business."Ford and Zaphod clinked their glasses together."To business!" they said."I beg your pardon?" said Benjy.Ford looked round."Sorry, I thought you were proposing a toast," he said.

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.

A história de todas as grandes civilizações galácticas tende a passar por três fases distintas e identificáveis: a da Sobrevivência, a da Interrogação e a da Sofisticação, também conhecidas pelas fases Como, Porquê e Onde. Por exemplo, a primeira fase é caracterizada pela pergunta "Como vamos comer?", a segunda pela pergunta "Por que comemos?" e a terceira pela pergunta "Onde vamos almoçar?".

This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.

By late 1978, we had Douglas Adams as our script editor and he was full of energy. He had just written the first part of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and his first story for Doctor Who, 'The Pirate Planet'. It was something to do with a planet that could hop about the Universe and suck out the energy of the other planets. The earth was threatened and that's where I came in.

At some distance down the corridor it seemed suddenly as if somebody started to beat on a bass drum.He listened to it for a few seconds and realized that it was just his heart beating.He listened for a few seconds more and realized that it wasn’t his heart beating, it was somebody down the corridor beating on a bass drum.

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.