Douglas Adams Quotes

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 small furry creatures from Alpha Centuri.

"Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper untl your forehead bleeds'

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 am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

The point is, you see…that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might as well just give in and save your sanity for later.

It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'as pretty as an airport' exist.

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 and so on... conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than Man for precisely the same reasons.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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.

Arthur Dent awoke and immediately regretted it.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools

The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

Life is wasted on the living.

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.

A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.

Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.