Douglas Adams Quotes

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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.

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

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

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

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

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

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

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

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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

Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

How many roads must a man walk down?

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

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

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.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

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

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

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

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

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 not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

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

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.