The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.
Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.
There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they’re not really parallel, and two, they’re not really universes.
Space is really big – REALLY big.
I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!
There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow pizza.
The story goes that I first had the idea for The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck.
A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.
Time doesn’t necessarily happen in chronological order.
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don’t quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.
When the idea comes, I often can’t remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker’s. It’s almost as if someone else wrote it.
There is no problem so complicated that you can’t find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.
Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.
I think media are at their most interesting before anybody’s thought of calling them art, when people still think they’re just a load of junk.
Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.
Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.