What is your favorite Douglas Adams quote?

[neofishboy]

I would have posted this before, but I had loaned out my copy of Life, the Universe and Everything.

• …and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.

  “Freedom,” he said aloud.

  Trillian came onto the bridge at that point and said several enthusiastic things on the subject of freedom.

  “I can’t cope with it,” he said, and sent a third drink down to see why the second hadn’t yet reported on the condition of the first. He looked uncertainly at both of her and preferred the one on the right.

  He poured a drink down his other throat with the plan that it would head the previous one off at the pass, join forces with it, and together they would get the second to pull itself together. Then all three would go off in search of the first, give it a good talking to.

  He felt uncertain as to whether the fourth drink had understood all that so he sent down a fifth to explain the plan more fully and a sixth for moral support.

  “You’re drinking too much,” said Trillian.*

[Max_Carnage]

Another one I like to use in my job as computer tech:

Probability factor of one to one. We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own lookout.

[AskNott]

I can’t remember the details, but the concept of a Somebody Else’s Problem Field stays with me. Once a thing is perceived as somebody else’s problem, it becomes almost totally invisible. It is completely true.

[Waenara]

“You’re Zaphod Beeblebrox?”

“Yes, but don’t shout it out or they’ll all want one.”

“The Zaphod Beeblebrox?”

“No, just a Zaphod Beeblebrox, didn’t you hear I come in six-packs?”

[Johnny_Q]

“I am so hip I have trouble seeing over my pelvis. I am so cool you could keep a side of beef in me for a month.”

I teleported home one night
With Ron and Sid and Meg
Ron stole Meggie’s heart away
And I got Sidney’s leg

[Call_me_Frank]

I can’t type out the entire introduction to The Ultimate Hitchhihker’s Guide (alright, I can - but I’m lazy) but it’s a great story about how THHGTTG (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, for those of us who aren’t hyper-intelligent shades of blue) came to be. And among all the wonderful lines, this is the funniest one, imo, that requires the least amount of typing:

I didn’t have a copy of Europe on Five Dollars a Day (as it then was) because I wasn’t in that financial league.

[Swede_Hollow]

A couple more from Last Chance to See

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.

and

…human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

[Briny_Deep]

When Zaphod and Ford are about to send Marvin crashing into the sun while saving themselves:

“Marvin! How’re you doing?”

“Not very well, I suspect.”
I get to use this one at work all the time.

[Tanaqui]

I love the whole bit in “Life, The Universe, and Everything” when Ford and Arthur meet again, after Arthur decides to go mad:

“I thought you must be dead…” he [Arthur] said simply.

“So did I for a wihle,” said Ford, “and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic.”

Arthur cleared his throat, then did it again. “Where,” he said, “did you … ?”

“Find a gin and tonic?” said Ford brightly. “I found a small lake that thought it was a gin and tonic, and jumped in and out of that. At least, I think it thought it was a gin and tonic.”

“I may,” he added with a grin that would have sent sane men scampering into trees, “have been imagining it.”

And all the rest have been posted are great as well.

[mighty_maxx]

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