“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
Fonte: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything
Fonte: Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Fonte: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.”
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
“something almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea”
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
Fonte: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
“Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.”
Douglas Adams livro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Fonte: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?”
Douglas Adams livro The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Fonte: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots”
Variante: He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Douglas Adams livro So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Fonte: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Douglas Adams livro So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Fonte: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.”
Douglas Adams livro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Speech http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/index.html at Digital Biota 2 http://www.cyberbiology.org/, Cambridge, UK, (1998) <br class="br">Fonte: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency <br class="br">Contexto: There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions.
“He turned slowly like a fridge door opening.”
Douglas Adams livro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Fonte: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams livro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Douglas Adams livro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
but it was a start.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Fonte: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 3
“LAXOBIGGING (ptcpl. vb.) Struggling to extrude an extremely large turd.”
Douglas Adams livro The Meaning of Liff
The Meaning of Liff (1983)
“FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery.”
Douglas Adams livro The Meaning of Liff
The Meaning of Liff (1983)
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Fonte: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 12
Douglas Adams livro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text adventure game (1985), published by Infocom.
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Fonte: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 2
“Thor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it.”
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Fonte: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 7