Douglas Adams Quotes

"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground."
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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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"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you'."
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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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"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."
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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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"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."
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"Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner."
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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
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"There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling."
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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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"Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity. I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk."
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"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher...or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."
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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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"Life? Don't talk to me about life!"
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"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose."
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"Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of."
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"Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart."
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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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"If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves."
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"What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your present circumstances seems more likely, consider yourself lucky that it won't be troubling you much longer."
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"The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end."
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"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer."
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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
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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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"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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"It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end."
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