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  1. "My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre," Ford muttered to himself, "and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."

    #HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

  2. One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.

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  3. "All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done."

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  4. "We can charge the Unnecessarily Painful Slow Death torpedoes on the trip. Hyperspace static will give them a little extra sting."
    Jeltz nodded approvingly. "You, Mown, are an utter bastard."
    "Thanks, Dad," he said.

    #HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

  5. "We can charge the Unnecessarily Painful Slow Death torpedoes on the trip. Hyperspace static will give them a little extra sting."
    Jeltz nodded approvingly. "You, Mown, are an utter bastard."
    "Thanks, Dad," he said.

    #HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

  6. "We can charge the Unnecessarily Painful Slow Death torpedoes on the trip. Hyperspace static will give them a little extra sting."
    Jeltz nodded approvingly. "You, Mown, are an utter bastard."
    "Thanks, Dad," he said.

    #HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

  7. "We can charge the Unnecessarily Painful Slow Death torpedoes on the trip. Hyperspace static will give them a little extra sting."
    Jeltz nodded approvingly. "You, Mown, are an utter bastard."
    "Thanks, Dad," he said.

    #HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

  8. "We can charge the Unnecessarily Painful Slow Death torpedoes on the trip. Hyperspace static will give them a little extra sting."
    Jeltz nodded approvingly. "You, Mown, are an utter bastard."
    "Thanks, Dad," he said.

    #HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

  9. A quotation from Douglas Adams

    Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone.

    Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
    Broadcast (2010-10-11), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future, ep. 2, “Publishing,” BBC Radio 4

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/6001/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #change #invention #media #progress #technology

  10. A quotation from Douglas Adams

    Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone.

    Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
    Broadcast (2010-10-11), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future, ep. 2, “Publishing,” BBC Radio 4

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/6001/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #change #invention #media #progress #technology

  11. A quotation from Douglas Adams

    Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone.

    Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
    Broadcast (2010-10-11), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future, ep. 2, “Publishing,” BBC Radio 4

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/6001/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #change #invention #media #progress #technology

  12. A quotation from Douglas Adams

    Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone.

    Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
    Broadcast (2010-10-11), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future, ep. 2, “Publishing,” BBC Radio 4

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/6001/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #change #invention #media #progress #technology

  13. A quotation from Douglas Adams

    Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone.

    Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
    Broadcast (2010-10-11), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future, ep. 2, “Publishing,” BBC Radio 4

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/6001/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #change #invention #media #progress #technology

  14. I usually give my cars names. I haven't done so with my current vehicle.

    This morning I had a flash of inspiration for an ideal name, I'll call my car Prefect.

    I have a Ford Grand Tourneo, so, it would be Ford Prefect.

    Not only a former Ford model of car, also the character from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

    #SciFi #DouglasAdams #Ford

  15. 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.

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  16. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

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  17. The current editor-in-chief, Stagyar-zil-Doggo, was a dangerously unbalanced man who took a homicidal view of contributing staff turning up in his office without pages of fresh, proofed copy, and had a battery of laser-guided guns linked to special scanning devices in the door frame to deter anybody who was merely bringing extremely good reasons why they hadn't written any. Thus was a high level of output maintained.

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  18. A quotation from Douglas Adams

    You can’t help but try and follow an animal’s thought processes, and you can’t help, when faced with an animal like a three ton rhinoceros with nasal passages bigger than its brain, but fail.

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
    Last Chance to See, ch. 3 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/30101/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #lastchancetosee #rhino #rhinoceros #animals #empathy #inscrutability #size #thinking #thought #thoughtprocess #understanding

  19. A quotation from Douglas Adams

       “So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly, then?” I asked.
       He blinked at me as if I were stupid.
       “Well what do you think you do?” he said. “You die of course. That’s what deadly means.”

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
    Last Chance to See, ch. 2 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/29827/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #lastchancetosee #deadliness #death #lethality #mortality #nature #poisonous #snake #snakebite #venom

  20. Happy Towel Day 2026, You Hoopy Froods!

    Celebrating the amazing humorous sci-fi works by Douglas Adams! From our own "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" parodies to anime fanservice farces and steamy steampunk shenanigans, towels have been a common, uh, COSTUME in our Patchwork Productions!

    #TowelDay #Towel #DouglasAdams #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #HGttG #Anime #AnimeCon

  21. Don't Panic!
    To all you hoopy froods a massively good Towel Day!

  22. Don't Panic!
    To all you hoopy froods a massively good Towel Day!

    #TowelDay #HHG2TG #DouglasAdams

  23. Don't Panic!
    To all you hoopy froods a massively good Towel Day!

    #TowelDay #HHG2TG #DouglasAdams

  24. Don't Panic!
    To all you hoopy froods a massively good Towel Day!

    #TowelDay #HHG2TG #DouglasAdams

  25. Don't Panic!
    To all you hoopy froods a massively good Towel Day!

    #TowelDay #HHG2TG #DouglasAdams

  26. 👣 23.–25. Mai 2026. Don't panic: Towel Day Festival 2026

    Am #TowelDay Wochenende organisieren wir eine Reihe von Special Events zum 25. Todestag von #DouglasAdams: Welche seiner Weissagungen sind (schon fast) eingetreten? Wovor müssen wir uns in acht nehmen? Wie beherzigen wir sein Don't Panic?

    Weitere Informationen gibt es auf
    leipziger-wissensspuren.de/de/

    #WissensSpuren
    #Spurensuche
    #WissenInLeipzig
    #Leipzig

  27. Outolan biisilista 21.05.2026

    outo.la/outolan-biisilista-21-

    Pyyhepäivä-aiheisen ohjelman vieraina Johanna Junnila ja Uuno Tapper Turun yliopiston tieteiskulttuurikabinetti Tutka ry:stä.

    Tänään kello 22 Helsingin Lähiradiossa sekä Mixcloudissa: mixcloud.com/outola

    Uusinta lauantaina kello 22.

    #radio #outola #turku #helsinki #musiikki #pyyhepäivä #towelday #hhgttg #scifi #douglasadams

  28. A quotation from Douglas Adams

    It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else’s point of view without the proper training.

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
    Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 15 (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/46078/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #mostlyharmless #hitchhikersersgidetothegalaxy #disturbing #empathy #identity #perspective #pointofview #self #sympathy #unsettling

  29. A quotation from Douglas Adams

       “It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see ….”
       “You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”
       “No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”
       “Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”
       “I did,” said Ford. “It is.”
       “So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?”
       “It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
       “You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”
       “Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”
       “But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”
       “Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in.”

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
    Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 4, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, ch. 36 (1984)

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/49165/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #solongandthanksforallthefish #candidate #choice #democracy #election #illusionofchoice #partisanship #politicians #selfdefeat #selfinterest #voting

  30. A quotation from Douglas Adams

    Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
    Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 4, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, ch. 11 [Arthur] (1984)

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82214/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #solongandthanksforallthefish #adult #humannature #maturity #precedent #principle #realworld #reality #selfimage #truth

  31. A quotation from Douglas Adams

    MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

    Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 5th” (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05)

    More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/35056/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #marvintheparanoidandroid #badtimes #complaint #depression #hyperbole #marchoftime #passageoftime #pessimism #waiting #worst

  32. @marcel Fein 😎
    Ich erinnere mich auch an eine Fassung mit Otto Sander und Nina Hoger_ Anyway.
    Im Internet Archive ist die synchronisierte BBC-Fassung zu finden. \via #ChronoLink mprove.de/chrono3d?ll=51.35031 /
    Und wenn man da auszoomt, gibt es noch viel mehr zum genialen Douglas Adams.

    #DouglasAdams

  33. 📚🌲 In unserem literarischen Adventskalender steckt heute ein Reisebericht zu bedrohten Tierarten der Welt. Douglas Adams reiste dafür nicht durch die Galaxis, sondern u. a. nach Neuseeland, Madagaskar, China.

    #bundheidelberg #klimaschutz #naturschutz #adventskalender #bücher#somanybooks #wissensdurst
    #douglasadams #dieletzenihrerart #aussterben

  34. @jon

    "Stick it up your nose," he said.

    "Which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know," insisted the girl, "Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?"

    -- Hitch-Hickers Guide to The Galaxy, Douglas Adams

    2/2

    #quote #hhg2tg #douglasAdams

  35. @jon

    "Stick it up your nose," he said.

    "Which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know," insisted the girl, "Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?"

    -- Hitch-Hickers Guide to The Galaxy, Douglas Adams

    2/2

    #quote #hhg2tg #douglasAdams

  36. @jon

    "Well, you're obviously being totally naive of course", said the girl, "When you've been in marketing as long as I have, you'll know that before any new product can be developed it has to be properly researched. We’ve got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them."

    The crowd were tense. They were expecting something wonderful from Ford.

    "Stick it up your nose," he said.

    1/2

    #quote #hhg2tg #douglasAdams

  37. @jon

    "Well, you're obviously being totally naive of course", said the girl, "When you've been in marketing as long as I have, you'll know that before any new product can be developed it has to be properly researched. We’ve got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them."

    The crowd were tense. They were expecting something wonderful from Ford.

    "Stick it up your nose," he said.

    1/2

    #quote #hhg2tg #douglasAdams

  38. @jon

    "Well, you're obviously being totally naive of course", said the girl, "When you've been in marketing as long as I have, you'll know that before any new product can be developed it has to be properly researched. We’ve got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them."

    The crowd were tense. They were expecting something wonderful from Ford.

    "Stick it up your nose," he said.

    1/2

    #quote #hhg2tg #douglasAdams

  39. @jon

    "Well, you're obviously being totally naive of course", said the girl, "When you've been in marketing as long as I have, you'll know that before any new product can be developed it has to be properly researched. We’ve got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them."

    The crowd were tense. They were expecting something wonderful from Ford.

    "Stick it up your nose," he said.

    1/2

    #quote #hhg2tg #douglasAdams

  40. #Introduction I'm Eclectic Lee, a middle-aged geek/nerd who's into #ComedyMusic (#WeirdAl, #TheFuMP), #ClassicVideoGames (#Atari), & #ComicBooks (#RomSpaceknight, #NewUniverse). I particularly like when those interests cross over (#PacManFever, #AtariForce). Minor interests include #DouglasAdams, #StarWars, #StarTrek, #DoctorWho & #TheatreOrgan. I hate politics, but will occasionally boost a political post, although I try to keep it positive. I've been on this Internet thing since the 1990s.

  41. What a wonderful idea! A tough choice, but here goes (today's, anyway!):

    #7Books to know me better:

    • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - #DouglasAdams (the whole trilogy in 5 parts)
    • The Robber Bride - #MargaretAtwood
    • Guards! Guards! (All of the City Watch books) - #TerryPratchett
    • Body of Glass - #MargePiercy
    • The Lacuna - #BarbaraKingsolver
    • Pride and Prejudice - #JaneAusten
    • Midnight's Children - #SalmanRushdie

    #Bookstodon #Reading