Quotes by
Douglas Adams |
1952-2001 , British Sci-Fi writer
English author, screenwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. He was author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy, before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. | 19 quotes | 1,196 visits |
Quotations
| • | Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. 8 |
| • | We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! 6 |
| • | A learning experience is one of those things that say, “You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.” 5 |
| • | The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. 5 |
| • | I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. 4 |
| • | I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer. 4 |
| • | Reality is frequently inaccurate. 4 |
| • | It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training. 4 |
| • | The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. 3 |
| • | Always expecting this and expecting that. May I recommend serenity to you? A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. Learn to be one with the joy of the moment. |
| • | I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. |
| • | My methods of navigation have their advantage. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. |
| • | There is a theory which states that if ever anyone 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. |
| • | For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. |
| • | If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat. |
| • | He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. |
| • | We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win. |
| • | He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. |
| • | See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that. |
