Douglas Adams Quotes.

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The great Douglas Adams was the master at creating Sci-fi humour. He died much too early. Such a great shame.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

That sums up a lot of human activity.

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.
The contradictions that people are able to hold simultaneously in their heads.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
I like deadlines – they focus my mind.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Me too. I wouldn’t change a thing.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
So lay off the chips and crisps! I must remember that.
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase ‘As pretty as an Airport’ appear.
We need an amazing architect!
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
I think bricks do hang for a fleeting second.
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody 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.
I think it must have already happened.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

It certainly goes at different speeds at different times.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

True for all of us. If we could only learn from our mistakes.

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.
We are stupid.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

I’m surprised it got in at all.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

I hope so.

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

Bad news and stupidity.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word ‘safe’ that I wasn’t previously aware of.

How often have we found that?

“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 or repair.

Everything can go wrong. That’s a law.

 

 

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