Need a quote from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

Question

I'm looking for a quote from one of the 5 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novels.
There's a scene when one of the characters (Arthur Dent, I think) reflects that even though humanity had invented all sorts of cool stuff, he himself didn't have the ability or knowledge to make any of those things.
I have the boxed set, but can't find it after hours of searching!

If someone could tell me which of the books and which chapter, I'd owe the universe some karma! Thanks!

Answer 1

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This article is about the franchise. Several terms redirect here; see The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (disambiguation) or Hitchhiker's Guide (disambiguation) for other uses.



The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy




First edition cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)



Creator

Douglas Adams



Original work

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases (1978–80)



Print publications



Books

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts (1985)
Starship Titanic (1997)



Novels

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
Life, the Universe and Everything (1982)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984)
Mostly Harmless (1992)
And Another Thing... (2009)



Comics

See the Comic Books section



Films and television



Films

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)



Television series

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)



Theatrical presentations



Plays

See the Stage Shows section



Games



Video games

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) (1984)



Audio



Radio programs

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases (1978–80)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases (2004–5)


The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon. Adaptations have included stage shows, a "trilogy" of five books published between 1979 and 1992, a sixth novel penned by Eoin Colfer in 2009, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and three series of three-part comic book adaptations of the first three novels published by DC Comics between 1993 and 1996. There were also two series of towels, produced by Beer-Davies, that are considered by some fans to be an "official version" of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as they include text from the first novel.[1][2] A Hollywood-funded film version, produced and filmed in the UK, was released in April 2005, and radio adaptations of the third, fourth, and fifth novels were broadcast from 2004 to 2005. Many of these adaptations, including the novels, the TV series, the computer game, and the earliest drafts of the Hollywood film's screenplay, were done by Adams himself, and some of the stage shows introduced new material written by Adams.

The title is the name of a fictional, eccentric, electronic travel guide, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, prominently featured in the series.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[3] is often abbreviated "HHGTTG" (as used on fan websites) or "H2G2" (first used by Neil Gaiman as a chapter title in Don't Panic and later by the online guide run by the BBC). The series is also often referred to as "The Hitchhiker's Guide", "Hitchhiker's", or simply "[The] Guide". This title can refer to any of the various incarnations of the story of which the books are the most widely distributed, having been translated into more than 30 languages by 2005.[4]

Answer 2

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition by Douglas Adams novel is just an amazingly hilarious read that will leave you yearning for more; to our great fortune, Adams indeed left us more in the form of four subsequent books in the Hitchhiker's "trilogy." If you don't like science fiction, it doesn't matter; read this book just for the laughs. The most amazing thing about Adams' humor is the fact that everyone seems to "get" it. Adams broke all the rules in writing a novel quite unlike any that had come before it, and he succeeded in spades. This may well be the funniest novel ever written.

Source(s):

http://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Galaxy…

Answer 3

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