Douglas Adams Quotes
Quotebunny has 26 quotations by Douglas Adams.
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
“Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”
“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.”
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”
“I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.”
“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”
“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”
“In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.”
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
“It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
“Life is wasted on the living.”
“The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
“The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.”
“The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
“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.”
Douglas Adams Bio:
Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
He also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), Last Chance to See (1990), and three stories for the television series Doctor Who. A posthumous collection of his work, including an unfinished novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Known to some of his fans as "Bop Ad" for his illegible signature,
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