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Chapters (30)
  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. An Introduction to the Introduction to the New Edition
  5. Introduction to the New Edition
  6. Editor’s Note
  7. Introduction
  8. Prologue
  9. Life
  10. The Universe
  11. And Everything
  12. The Salmon Of Doubt
  13. Chapter 1
  14. Chapter 2
  15. Chapter 3
  16. Chapter 4
  17. Chapter 5
  18. Chapter 6
  19. Chapter 7
  20. Chapter 8
  21. Chapter 9
  22. Chapter 10
  23. Chapter 11
  24. Epilogue
  25. Editor’s Acknowledgments
  26. For More Information
  27. Praise
  28. Don't Panic
  29. Also by Douglas Adams
  30. Copyright Page

A moment or two later the train was coming in, so I tossed back the rest of my coffee, stood up, picked up the newspaper, and underneath the newspaper were my cookies. The thing I like particularly about this story is the sensation that somewhere in England there has been wandering around for the last quarter-century a perfectly ordinary guy who’s had the same exact story, only he doesn’t have the punch line.

From a speech to Embedded Systems, 2001

And Everything

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Interview with the Onion A.V. Club

I think the idea of art kills creativity.
—D.N.A.

THE ONION. You’ve got a lot of stuff going on. What do you want to talk about first?

DOUGLAS ADAMS. I guess there are two main things. One is that we are imminently about to finish this thing that I’ve been laboring over for what seems like two years now, called Starship Titanic, which is a CD-ROM. It’s coming out in a couple months’ time. The other thing is that I’ve just agreed to the sale of Hitchhiker’s Guide to Disney. So I guess over the next couple of years, that’s what I’m going to be doing. I’m making that movie.

O. Tell me about Starship Titanic.