I. D. Douglas Quotes

These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings.

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.

I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.

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

Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.

Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother.

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style

The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.

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

I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!

The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.

I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.

The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.

Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.

A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.

I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse.

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.

Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry.

I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.

High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

What is this? Some sort of galactic hyperhearse?

Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them.

Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.

He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

We’ll meet the meat.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

He turned slowly like a fridge door opening.

Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.

Please call me Eddie if it will help you to relax.

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

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

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It’s just an awful lot of 'us.'