Top 400 Douglas Adams Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

— Douglas Adams

54. “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

55. “Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.”

— Douglas Adams

56. “Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

— Douglas Adams

57. “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

58. “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

59. “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”

— Douglas Adams

60. “Who is this god person anyway?”

— Douglas Adams

61. “Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.”

— Douglas Adams

62. “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

63. “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

64. “How do you know you’re having fun if there’s no one watching you have it?”

— Douglas Adams

65. “And so the Universe ended.”

— Douglas Adams

66. “There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.”

— Douglas Adams

67. “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

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

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

70. “How many roads must a man walk down?”

— Douglas Adams

71. “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

72. “Space is unimaginably big.”

— Douglas Adams

73. “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

74. “Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.”

— Douglas Adams

75. “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

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

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

78. “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

79. “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

80. “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

86. “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

87. “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

88. “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

89. “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

90. “Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?”

— Douglas Adams

91. “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

92. “The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.”

— Douglas Adams

93. “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

94. “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

95. “Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

97. “We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.”

— Douglas Adams

98. “You can tune a guitar, but you can’t tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.”

— Douglas Adams

99. “Please call me Eddie if it will help you to relax.”

— Douglas Adams

100. “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