Douglas Adams Quotes

• We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Science

• 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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  Topics in Humor

• 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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  Topics in Experience, Life

• Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• 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.

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Art, Humor

• 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.

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Humor, Life

  Tags in Live, Science

• Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

  Douglas Adams

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Simple, Print, Books

• You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

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• We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

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  Topics in Humor

• You may not have gone where you intended to go, but you’ll end up where you need to be.

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  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Need, Intended

• Time is bunk.

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• This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humour

• 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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  Topics in Humor

• The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

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• The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

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

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• The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

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• The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

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• The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

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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 drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.

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  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Science

Douglas Adams (63)

Birth:	11th March, 1952
Death:	11th May, 2001
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Humorist, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter

About

Douglas Noel Adams was born in Cambridge, England. He was an English novelist, screenwriter, humorist, and playwright. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff, The Deeper Meaning of Liff, and Last Chance to See.

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