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Type: Writer Quotes Category: English Writer Quotes Date of Birth: March 11, 1952 Date of Death: May 11, 2001 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Douglas Adams Related Authors: Thomas Paine Rudyard Kipling Quentin Crisp Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Agatha Christie P. G. Wodehouse Alain de Botton |
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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Douglas Adams Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Adams Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. Douglas Adams 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. Douglas Adams He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. Douglas Adams 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 I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. Douglas Adams I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. Douglas Adams I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. Douglas Adams I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? Douglas Adams I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. Douglas Adams 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 If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves. Douglas Adams In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. Douglas Adams 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 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 It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. Douglas Adams 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 |
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