Quote: The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: 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. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the person's house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of its head with a note that says "You." After that, I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: For every human problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: 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]
Quote: He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? [Douglas Adams]
Quote: I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. [Douglas Adams]
Quote: 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]