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Douglas Adams Quotes - Page 4

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In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Order, Missing, Racist

The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn't collapse when you beat your head against it.

Real, Coffee, Ideas

Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.59, Del Rey

Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.

Taken, Hobbies, World

We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.

Time, Clouds, Air

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

Music, Humans, Universe

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Believe, Belief, Argument

Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.65, Pan Macmillan

Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain quickly speckled the windscreen. He turned on the wipers again, but they still refused to feel that the exercise was worthwhile, and scraped and squeaked in protest.

Rain, Exercise, Car

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.388, Simon and Schuster

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.

Hitchhiking, World, Complexity

Richard Dawkins' Eulogy for Douglas Adams at Church of Saint Martin in the Fields, London, www.edge.org. September 17, 2001.

In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of the marvels of convergent technology, the thing you type on and the window you stare out of are now the same thing.

Technology, Typewriters, Window

"What's up?" "I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there."

Said, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Marvin

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 1)". Book by Douglas Adams (Chapter 34), October 12, 1979.

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

Wise, Funny Life, Short Life

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.716, Pan Macmillan

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

Eye, Ears, Hearsay

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.130, Pan Macmillan

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

Funny, Jobs, Responsibility

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Twelfth" (radio program) (1980) See Twain 14

Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.

Funny, Humor, Race

It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Religious, Silly, Ignorance

"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Atheist, Men, Giving

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1979.

You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen.

Mother, Men, Space

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.80, Del Rey

She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.

Hair, Profound, Understanding

Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in; fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well! It must have been made to have me in it!

Witty, Morning, Thinking

Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.130, Del Rey

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.

Technology

"Astro Teller: Why we developed Google Glass" by Astro Teller, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2014.

To boldly split infinitives that no man had split before.

Men, Splits, Infinitive

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

Work Out, Mind, Currents

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.95, Pan Macmillan

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.

Analysis, Causes, Cause And Effect

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

Fire, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.

Funny, Humorous, Hands

Douglas Adams (2014). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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