“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
Douglas Adams livro The Salmon of Doubt
Fonte: The Salmon of Doubt
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“You're a jerk,' repeated the alien, 'a complete asshole.”
Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything
Fonte: Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams livro The Salmon of Doubt
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Douglas Adams livro The Meaning of Liff
The Meaning of Liff (1983)
“Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.”
As quoted in Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Companion (1988) by Neil Gaiman
Douglas Adams livro The Meaning of Liff
The Meaning of Liff (1983)
“AALST (n.) One who changes his name to be further to the front.”
Douglas Adams livro The Meaning of Liff
Appears as the first entry of the book.
The Meaning of Liff (1983)
“Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
Douglas Adams livro The Salmon of Doubt
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Contexto: Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams livro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Parrots, the Universe and Everything (2001)
Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything
Fonte: Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams livro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Fonte: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
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
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
Douglas Adams livro Mostly Harmless
Fonte: Mostly Harmless
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
Douglas Adams livro The Salmon of Doubt
Fonte: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
“Ford… you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
Douglas Adams livro The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Fonte: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Fonte: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Douglas Adams livro The Salmon of Doubt
Douglas Adams. The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time. New York: Random House, 2002, 135–136.<br>Also quoted by Richard Dawkins in his Eulogy for Douglas Adams (17 September 2001) http://www.edge.org/documents/adams_index.html <br class="br">Contexto: If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat. Life is a level of complexity that almost lies outside our vision; it is so far beyond anything we have any means of understanding that we just think of it as a different class of object, a different class of matter; 'life', something that had a mysterious essence about it, was God given, and that's the only explanation we had. The bombshell comes in 1859 when Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species. It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well.
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
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 The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Fonte: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 1
Contexto: It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Fonte: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
