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Douglas Adams Quote: “Don’t Panic.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Reality is frequently inaccurate.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “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 Quote: “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “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 chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “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.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Life is wasted on the living.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “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.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Earth: mostly harmless.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you’ve never actually known what the question is.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there’s no point trying to look in that direction because it won’t be coming from there.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “A cup of tea would restore my normality.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”

Douglas Adams Quote: “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.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Don’t you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn’t developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don’t expect to see.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “If there’s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “You can’t dodge your responsibilities by saying they don’t exist!”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Who is this god person anyway?”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and satisfied, drove on into the night.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”

Douglas Adams Quote: “How do you know you’re having fun if there’s no one watching you have it?”

Douglas Adams Quote: “And so the Universe ended.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “How many roads must a man walk down?”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Space is unimaginably big.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn’t Have A Good Answer To.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler’s mind.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they’re not really parallel, and two, they’re not really universes.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don’t quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it’s art while it’s being created.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “You come to me for advice, but you can’t cope with anything you don’t recognize. Hmmm. So we’ll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual, I suppose.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you’ve always had.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn’t just jump over and have done with it.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world’s about to end.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “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.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don’t believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Beauty doesn’t have to be about anything. What’s a vase about? What’s a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart’s Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?”

Douglas Adams Quote: “But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we’re driving.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Please call me Eddie if it will help you to relax.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: “Macintosh – We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end”.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “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?”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up.”

Douglas Adams Quote: “Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.”

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