Douglas Adams Quotes
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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?
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!)
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
For us, there is no longer a fundamental mystery about Life. It is all the process of extraordinary eruptions of information.
When you're a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train fare, all you can do is hope that someone will stop and pick you up.
Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
The Answer to the Great Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything Is... Forty-two.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion…
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Life is a level of complexity that almost lies outside our vision; it is so far beyond anything we have any means of understanding.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. 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, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions.
