Douglas Adams idézet

„Azok az emberek, akik szinte egyedülálló módon képesek tanulni mások tapasztalataiból, figyelemre méltóak az erre való látszólagos hajlandóságuk miatt is.”

„A technológia egy olyan szó, amely olyasmit ír le, ami még nem működik.”

„A Kétség Lazaca (2002)”

„Isten ma már nem magyarázat semmire, hanem inkább olyasvalamivé vált, aminek önmagában van szüksége elképesztő mennyiségű magyarázatra.”

„A 42-es szám egy szép szám, amit hazavihetsz és bemutathatsz a családodnak.”

„Ritkán kötök ott ki, ahová menni szándékoztam, de gyakran ott találom magam, ahol szükség van a jelenlétemre.”

„Nem vagyok hajlandó válaszolni erre a kérdésre, azért mert nemtudom a választ.”

„Szeretem a határidőket. Szeretem azt a suhanó hangot, amelyet ki adnak mikor elrepülnek melletem.”

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”

“Don't Panic.”

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

“Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.”

“Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.”

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

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”

“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”

“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”

“My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.”

“The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”

“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.”

“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.”

“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

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

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”

“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.”

“If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.”

“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”

“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”

“Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”

“He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.”

“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.”

“I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say "Meet under the clock tower," or "Meet under the War Memorial," but "Meet under Adams.”