Book · 1986 · comic science fiction
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Book 1
#78 of 13,417 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
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But then I read uh Douglas Adams hitch his Guide to the Galaxy which is really a book on philosophy disguises humor.
Elon Musk · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Dec 2024 Listen at 28:33 What they say about it
- The universe and the answer 42“the universe is the answer”3
- Philosophy disguised as humor“book on philosophy disguises humor”2
The best things said about it
Like escapism was I also a huge part of it. Like allowing myself the opportunity to immerse myself in stories like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which was fantastical and stupid and silly and it was exactly what I needed when I found myself in a cell with four other women, one of whom was threatening to beat me.
Amanda Knox The Daily Stoic · Aug 2024 Go read Mostly Harmless or Hitchhiker's Guide and get on board, best books ever.
Our AI Grok is modeled after The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is one of my favorite books.
Elon Musk Lex Fridman Podcast · Nov 2023 He actually says that when he was really really young he started pondering the meaning of life and actually made him depressed and it wasn't until he read hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy that he found some meaning um and optimism.
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy i also great i also list it as a philosophy book um you know i think that and it had an impact on not just on on my thinking but on my on on how i write or work.
Yuval Noah Harari The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2020 Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is a comedic science fiction classic that follows the absurd interstellar adventures of an ordinary human named Arthur Dent. Ian Bremmer recommended the book on The Ezra Klein Show as a staple reading memory from his high school and college years. Lex Fridman concluded episodes of the Lex Fridman Podcast by quoting Adams's humorous passages about the unfashionable end of the galaxy and Earth's insignificance. Kelly Cronin recommended the series on ChooseFI as one of the greatest books ever written. In other discussions, Scott Dikkers mentioned the depressed robot character on How I Write as a prime example of the sad sack archetype in comedy, and Shaan Puri brought up the book on My First Million while joking about whether Elon Musk's recurring numeric references stemmed from the story's famous answer to life and the universe. Julia Quinn noted on The Book Review that she adores the novel as a surprising favorite on her shelves, and Elon Musk explained on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast that the book served as a vital philosophical guide disguised as humor during his youth.
Every mention
Lex Fridman And now let me leave you with some words from Douglas Adams in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": "Far out… 8
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“And now let me leave you with some words from Douglas Adams in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."”
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“Now let me leave you with some words from Douglas Adams in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy': 'Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose”
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“In 'Hitchhiker's Guide,' summarizing it as harmless or mostly harmless is beautifully poetic.”
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“You write, "In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ford Prefect spends 15 years researching his revision to the Guide's entry on the Earth, which originally read 'Harmless.'"”
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“hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy right of what this uh mostly harmless mostly harmless”
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“and now let me leave you with some words from douglas adams in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun”
Discussed
“but because it's placed in a book with humor around it it has the meme effect of actually creating reality I mean you could say that 42 has a strong contribution of helping us colonize mars because it created it gave the whatever existential crisis to many of us including elon musk when he was young you know reading a”
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“and now let me leave you with some words from douglas adams in his book hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy on the planet earth man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much the wheel new york wars and so on whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in”
Ian Bremmer Well, first, I've got to start with the Hitchhiker's Guide. Um because when I was in high school and colleg… 1
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“Well, first, I've got to start with the Hitchhiker's Guide. Um because when I was in high school and college, there were basically three kinds of kids.”
Kelly Cronin for those of you who don't know go read mostly harmless or hitchhiker's guide and get on board best books e… 1
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“for those of you who don't know go read mostly harmless or hitchhiker's guide and get on board best books ever Douglas Adams”
Elon Musk Our AI Grok is modeled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is one of my favorite books 6
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“but then I read uh Douglas Adams hitch his Guide to the Galaxy which is really a book on philosophy disguises humor”
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“As Douglas Adams pointed out in his book, sometimes, the answer is arguably the easy part. Trying to frame the question correctly is the hard part.”
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“so philosophically i'm i'm in the douglas adams sort of school of thought uh which is that the universe is the answer”
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“Our AI Grok is modeled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is one of my favorite books”
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“well really I think what Douglas Adams was saying in hedg guide of the Galaxy is that um the universe is the answer”
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“well really I think what Douglas Adams was saying in hedg guide of the Galaxy is that um the universe is the answer and uh what we really need to figure out our what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe”
Marc Andreessen Douglas uh you know the book Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 3
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“Douglas uh you know the book Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”
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“Douglas Adams had a great you know who wrote Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had a great framing on this”
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“Douglas Adams, the science fiction author who wrote the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had another take on this.”
Adam Grant and then douglas adams wrote about it in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy right that the only person we… 2
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“and then douglas adams wrote about it in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy right that the only person we should want as a president is the one who had no interest in doing the job”
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“and then douglas adams wrote about it in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy”
Joe Rogan Isaac asimov's Foundation series is widely understood to be the inspiration for Star Wars Dune and even The… 2
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“Isaac asimov's Foundation series is widely understood to be the inspiration for Star Wars Dune and even The Hitchhiker guide of the Galaxy”
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“did you ever read The Hitchhikers Guide of the Galaxy they had it's a futuristic there's a restaurant called the restaurant at the end of the universe”
Amanda Knox Like escapism was I also a huge part of it. Like allowing myself the opportunity to immerse myself in stori… 1
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“Like escapism was I also a huge part of it. Like allowing myself the opportunity to immerse myself in stories like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which was fantastical and stupid and silly and it was exactly what I needed when I found myself in a cell with four other women, one of whom was threatening to beat me”
Daniil Liberman 42. Yeah, it's like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 1
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“42. Yeah, it's like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.”
Dave Sellinger i'm reading hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy right now in the first chapter it says like humans are general… 1
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“i'm reading hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy right now in the first chapter it says like humans are generally miserable because they spend all their time moving green paper around”
Duncan Trussell it's like what Douglas Adams said about mice and Hitchhiker's Guide of the Galaxy that mice were actually t… 1
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“it's like what Douglas Adams said about mice and Hitchhiker's Guide of the Galaxy that mice were actually the very tip of a the appendages of a super intelligent creature that likes to study”
Hugh Howey I think it was uh hitchhiker's guy to the Galaxy and Enders Game I read them back to back 1
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“I think it was uh hitchhiker's guy to the Galaxy and Enders Game I read them back to back”
Julia Quinn I'm going to go with The Hitcher's Guide to the Galaxy, which I adore. 1
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“I'm going to go with The Hitcher's Guide to the Galaxy, which I adore.”
Michael Littman the historical hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy that that is the meaning of life 1
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“the historical hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy that that is the meaning of life”
Scott Dikkers Like Eeyore, like um, the robot in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Now, that's a funny irony robots,… 1
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“Like Eeyore, like um, the robot in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Now, that's a funny irony robots, you know, they have no emotions.”
Shaan Puri Is there a Hitchhiker's I've never read Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy. Is there like a 420? Is this like a a… 1
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“Is there a Hitchhiker's I've never read Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy. Is there like a 420? Is this like a a weed 420 reference or is weed 420 thing? Yeah, it's a Does he guys I'm cool too, right? I think I think it's I think in hitch guide it's like 42. That's the number for the universe, but that's”
Steven Bartlett he actually says that when he was really really young he started pondering the meaning of life and actually… 1
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“he actually says that when he was really really young he started pondering the meaning of life and actually made him depressed and it wasn't until he read hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy that he found some meaning um and optimism”
Tim Pool hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy did you ever read that book no 1
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“hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy did you ever read that book no”
Walter Isaacson One of my theories on Elon, a minor theory, is that he read "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" once too often. 1
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“One of my theories on Elon, a minor theory, is that he read "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" once too often.”
Yuval Noah Harari hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy i also great i also list it as a philosophy book um you know i think that… 1
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“hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy i also great i also list it as a philosophy book um you know i think that and it had an impact on not just on on my thinking but on my on on how i write or work”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
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“they've often been featured in science fiction of course Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy you know presents them as sort of the most intelligent creatures on Earth”
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Other mentions (25: passing, ad reads, own books)
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“It's easy to disparage these individuals in finance, akin to characters from Douglas Adams' 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,' suggesting they possess plans to abandon all financial advisors; however, such roles are pivotal to maintaining trust within large-scale societies.”
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“what they do like you're having The Hitchhiker guy guy to the Galaxy that they have this plan to leave all these financial advisor behind”
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“Guide to the Galaxy even right”
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“Douglas uh you know the book Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams who wrote that book he he once had a formulation”
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“can we shout out that great book that a lot of this is called from The Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy”
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“By the way, can we shout out that great book that a lot of this is called from, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? No, what great book?”
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“Douglas Adams had a great, you know, who wrote Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had a great framing on this.”
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“What happened, actually, was on the first night out, the advanced team went out, and Doug went on the advanced team because I wanted him to note everything for the book.”
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“And obviously, a shout out to the Hitchhiker's Guide and all that kind of stuff.”
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“and going to be called the hit hackers guy to the Galaxy or could be that's a good name for it we've we've been toying a little bit with name”
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“I like this quote by Douglas Adams: humans don't like their ancestors; they rarely invite them over for dinner.”
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“uh hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy right of what this uh mostly harmless mostly harmless yeah”
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“and now let me leave you with some words from douglas adams in the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green”
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“like in uh heer's guide there's I think like a paragraph or a couple sentences”
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“what do you hope your legacy is when there's a when there's a book like a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and this is like a one sentence entry ball”
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“the longer i look at facebook and the mainstream media the more i feel like one of the dolphins from hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy silently observing the silly humans unaware of their impending doom so long and thanks for all the fish”
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“so i when i turned 42 you may know from that's a that is a book i read um the the historical hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy that that is the meaning of life”
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“since this is episode number 142 and 42 as we all know is the answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything according to the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy”
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“it's like a hitchhiker's guide i know”
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“So 42 is obviously the answer to life the universe and everything from the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy”
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“42 is obviously the answer to life the universe and everything from the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy”
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“and you've also mentioned this hilarious idea maybe tongue-in-cheek maybe not that there may be simulations within simulations arbitrarily stacked levels and that there may be that we may be in level 42 oh yeah along those stacks referencing Hitchhiker's Guide to the universe”
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“or a towel don't forget your towel that's a Hitchhiker's Guide”
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“or a towel Don't forget your towel That's a Hitchhiker's Guide”
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“Do you have a favorite Monty Python moment or a moment Hitchhiker's Guide or any other literature show a movie that cracks you up when you think about it”