Some Douglas Adams quotes
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
All right, so I�m panicking, what else is there to do?
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Funny how just when you think life can�t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.
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.
Hey, excuse me - is this guy boring you? Why don't you talk to me instead? I'm from a different planet...it's true. You want to see my spaceship?
I feel that my whole life is some kind of dream and I sometimes wonder whose it is and whether they are enjoying it.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.
I really do not believe that there is a god - in fact I am convinced that there is not a god. I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one. It's easier to say that I am a radical Atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.
If there is anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
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.
Isn�t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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.
Life � loathe it or ignore it, you can�t like it.
Life is wasted on the living.
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
The mere thought hadn�t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Arthur: Normality? We can talk about normality until the cows come home.
Ford: What is normal?
Trillian: What is home?
Zaphod: What are cows?
-carina
