“É um erro acreditar que é possível resolver qualquer problema importante usando batatas.”
Life, the Universe and Everything, capítulo 24
Variante: É um erro acreditar que é possível resolver qualquer problema importante usando apenas batatas.
Douglas Noël Adams foi um escritor e comediante britânico, famoso por ter escrito esquetes para a série televisiva Monty Python's Flying Circus, junto com os integrantes desse grupo de humor nonsense, e pela série de rádio, jogos e livros The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Os fãs e amigos de Adams o descreveram também como um ativista ambiental, um assumido ateísta radical e amante dos automóveis possantes, câmeras, computadores Macintosh e outros 'apetrechos tecnológicos'. O biólogo Richard Dawkins dedicou-lhe seu livro The God Delusion e nele descreve como Adams compreendeu a teoria da evolução e, tornou-se um ateísta. Adams era um entusiasta de novas tecnologias, tendo escrito sobre email e usenet antes de tornarem-se amplamente conhecidos. Até o fim de sua vida, Adams foi um requisitado professor de tópicos que incluíam ambiente e tecnologia.
Em 11 de março de 2013, dia em que Adams completaria 61 anos, o Google criou um Doodle especial para comemorar pelo seu aniversário. Wikipedia

“É um erro acreditar que é possível resolver qualquer problema importante usando batatas.”
Life, the Universe and Everything, capítulo 24
Variante: É um erro acreditar que é possível resolver qualquer problema importante usando apenas batatas.
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
O Guia do Mochileiro das Galáxias
“Ah, a vida - disse Marvin, lúgubre. - Pode-se odiá-la ou ignorá-la, mas é impossível gostar dela.”
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams livro The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“O sentido disso tudo é que não há sentido em tentar enlouquecer para impedir-se de ficar louco.”
Life, the Universe and Everything, capítulo 2
Life, the Universe and Everything
O Guia do Mochileiro das Galáxias
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I love deadlines. I like the whoosing sound they make as they fly by.”
Douglas Adams livro The Salmon of Doubt
Variante: I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Fonte: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Variante: So long and thanks for all the fish.
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams livro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Fonte: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams livro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Fonte: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”
Douglas Adams livro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Fonte: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything
Fonte: Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams livro The Salmon of Doubt
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Fonte: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 4
“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Fonte: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 13
Contexto: My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
Douglas Adams livro The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Variante: In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Fonte: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams livro Mostly Harmless
Variante: Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Fonte: Mostly Harmless
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.”
Douglas Adams livro The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Fonte: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams livro The Salmon of Doubt
Fonte: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything
Fonte: Life, the Universe and Everything
Fonte: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy