Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, screenwriter, essayist, humourist, satirist and dramatist.Wikipedia
Quotes by Douglas Adams
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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For instance, 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 the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
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The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
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Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
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This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
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