Douglas Adams Quotes

English - Writer March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001 Read full biography

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

Integrity, Money, Service, You, Real

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Love, Funny, Fly, Sound, Like, Make

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

Mistake, People, Design, Underestimate

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. - Douglas Adams

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

End, Always, Need, Go, Up, Where

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.

Universe, Will, Why, More, Disappear

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams

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

Learning, Yourself, Flying, Miss, Ground

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.

Experience, Unique, Learn, Human, Others

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.

Family, Bird, Small, Hands, Looks, Duck

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. - Douglas Adams

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

Mistake, Think, You, Problems, Just, Any

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Dreams, Wife, Dreamer, Idiot, He, His

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My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

Tree, Trees, Fall, Young, Information

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

Trust, Mistake, People, Internet, You

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us.'

Internet, You, Important, Learn, Things

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.

Here, He, Contradiction, Involved, Then

Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

Time, Ocean, Long Time, Better, Long

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Time, Illusion, Lunchtime, Doubly

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

Live, You, Learn, Any, Rate

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Politics, Trust, You, Brain, Why, Out

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Rain, Think, Fish, Judge, Nice, Who Am I

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Angry, People, Beginning, Universe, Bad

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Moment, Nothing, Happen, Second, Then

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 drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

Believe, Think, You, Space, Road, Long

Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.

Work, Time, Effort, Fun, End, Worth

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. - Douglas Adams

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Funny, Dead, Tax, Year, Reasons

What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.

Reality, Start, Understand, Important

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Mind, Thought, About, Crossing, Even

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