Quotes by Douglas Adams

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  • I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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  • Anything that happens, happens. Anthing 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.
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  • Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.
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  • He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
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  • He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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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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  • The story so far: 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.
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  • See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
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  • I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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  • Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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  • She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting.
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  • Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.
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  • 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.
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  • My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes.
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  • It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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  • I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
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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 or repair.
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  • Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
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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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  • To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
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  • Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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