Douglas Adams Quotes

1. “Don’t Panic.”

— Douglas Adams

2. “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

— Douglas Adams

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3. “Reality is frequently inaccurate.”

— Douglas Adams

4. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

— Douglas Adams

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5. “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

6. “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

8. “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”

— Douglas Adams

9. “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

10. “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

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16. “A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.”

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

18. “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

19. “Life is wasted on the living.”

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

21. “42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.”

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

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23. “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

24. “We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”

— Douglas Adams

25. “I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”

— Douglas Adams

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26. “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

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

— Douglas Adams

28. “The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.”

— Douglas Adams

29. “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.”

— Douglas Adams

30. “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

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31. “Earth: mostly harmless.”

— Douglas Adams

32. “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

33. “It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.”

— Douglas Adams

34. “In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.”

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

37. “This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”

— Douglas Adams

38. “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

39. “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

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

— Douglas Adams

41. “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

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

— Douglas Adams

43. “A cup of tea would restore my normality.”

— Douglas Adams

44. “Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

— Douglas Adams

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45. “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”

— Douglas Adams

46. “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

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47. “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

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

— Douglas Adams

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49. “We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.”

— Douglas Adams

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50. “You can’t dodge your responsibilities by saying they don’t exist!”

— Douglas Adams

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