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brianosaurusrex:
“ I decided to make some Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy wallpapers inspired by the “Don’t Panic” one I uploaded before. This one is based on the second novel.
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brianosaurusrex:

I decided to make some Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy wallpapers inspired by the “Don’t Panic” one I uploaded before. This one is based on the second novel.

Science And Novels - Richard Dawkins & Douglas Adams

‘Do you have a good sofa?’ he enquired.
‘Well, yes.’ Richard laughed. He was cheered by the silliness of the question.
‘Oh,’ said Reg solemnly. ‘Well, I wish you’d tell me where you got it. I have endless trouble with them, quite endless. Never found...

‘Do you have a good sofa?’ he enquired.
‘Well, yes.’ Richard laughed. He was cheered by the silliness of the question.
‘Oh,’ said Reg solemnly. ‘Well, I wish you’d tell me where you got it. I have endless trouble with them, quite endless. Never found a comfortable one in all my life. How do you find yours?’ He encountered, with a slight air of surprise, a small silver tray he had left out with a decanter of port and three glasses.
‘Well, it’s odd you should ask that,’ said Richard. ‘I’ve never sat on it.’
‘Very wise,’ insisted Reg earnestly, ‘very, very wise.’ He went through a palaver similar to his previous one with his coat and hat.
‘Not that I wouldn’t like to,’ said Richard. ‘It’s just that it’s stuck halfway up a long flight of stairs which leads up into my flat. As far as I can make it out, the delivery men got it part way up the stairs, got it stuck, turned it around any way they could, couldn’t get it any further, and then found, curiously enough, that they couldn’t get it back down again. Now, that should be impossible.’
‘Odd,’ agreed Reg. ‘I’ve certainly never come across any irreversible mathematics involving sofas. Could be a new field. Have you spoken to any spatial geometricians?’

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“Yes, it is,” said the Professor. “Wait-” he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and investigate- “let it be. It won’t be long.”

Richard stared in disbelief. “You say there’s a horse in your bathroom, and all you can do is stand there naming Beatles songs?”

The Professor stared blankly at him.

“Listen,” he said, “I’m sorry if I… alarmed you earlier, it was just a slight turn. These things happen, my dear fellow, don’t be upset about it. Dear me, I’ve known odder things in my time. Many of them. Far odder. She’s only a horse, for heaven’s sake. I’ll go around and let her out later. Please don’t concern yourself. Let us revive our spirits with some port.”

“But… how did it get in there?”

“Well, the bathroom window’s open. I expect she came in through that.”

Richard looked at him, not for the first and certainly not the last time, through eyes that were narrowed with suspicion.

“You’re doing it deliberately, aren’t you?” he said.

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams (via birdsandstuff)
shakingtambourine:
“ Steal from the best!
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shakingtambourine:

Steal from the best!

beezusishere:
“ This is awesome.
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beezusishere:

This is awesome.

The electronic I Ching calculator was badly made. It had probably been manufactured in whichever of the South-East Asian countries was busy tooling up to do to South Korea what South Korea was busy doing to Japan. Glue technology had obviously not progressed in that country to the point where things could be successfully held together with it. Already the back had half fallen off and needed to be stuck back on with Sellotape.

It was much like an ordinary pocket calculator, except that the LCD screen was a little larger than usual, in order to accommodate the abridged judgments of King Wen on each of the sixty-four hexagrams, and also the commentaries of his son, the Duke of Chou, on each of the lines of the hexagram. These were unusual texts to see marching across the display of a pocket calculator, particularly as they had been translated from the Chinese via the Japanese and seemed to have enjoyed many adventures on the way.

The device also functioned as an ordinary calculator, but only to a limited degree. It could handle any calculation which returned an answer of anything up to “4”.

“1 + 1” it could manage (“2”), and “1 + 2” (“3”) and “2 + 2” (“4”) or “tan 74” (“3.4874145”), but anything above “4” it represented merely as “A Suffusion of Yellow”. Dirk was not certain if this was a programming error or an insight beyond his ability to fathom, but he was crazy about it anyway, enough to hand over £20 of ready cash for the thing.
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Submitted by cutie3pnt14159

I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it’s less good than what I do, there’s no point in reading it, if it’s better than what I do it makes me depressed. If it’s like something I’m intending to write I have to twist myself into knots trying to avoid it and if it’s like something I have written I feel ripped off. Simpler to read something else.
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thecunningplan:
“ I could never get the hang of Thursdays.
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thecunningplan:

I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

For instance in Life, The Universe And Everything I describe the way that the robot waiters and guests behave in the BistroMath ship. One of the guest robots keeps feeling under tables, insulting people and going on about some woman or other… I called him an AutoRory. Old friend of mine called Rory McGrath. That’s exactly what he used to be like in restaurants. Don’t know if he still is because I haven’t gone to restaurants with him for a while, for obvious reasons. Not only did Rory get the joke. Anybody who had ever been to a restaurant with him or even just IN a restaurant with him got it…
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