Douglas Adams, The Salmon Of Doubt Quotes

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

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

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.

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

I wanted to join Footlights, ” he says. “I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact taken.

But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn’t help feeling, was a very worrying thing for the world to do.