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Douglas Adams Quotes

Total quotes: 75
“The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Advice, Life, Living, How To Handle Advice
“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.”
— Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless(Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Tagged: Perception, Universe
“The story so far: 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, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Tagged: Life, The Universe, humor, Creation, Building the Earth
“See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Proof, Truth, Science
“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Happiness, Being Right, Being Happy, Smart vs. Happy
“This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. ”
— Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Tagged: Thursday, Humour, Stress, Boredom
“The Universe is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of their own devising, and this is what most beings in fact do.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“No, what's this? What's this? This is nothing, yeah we're going to die.”
— Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Movie Quotes, Fantasy Movies, Deep
“Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”
— Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Tagged: Life, Understanding, Knowledge, Ignorance, Bias
“The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried about.”
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Catch-22
“Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.”
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Politics, Presidency
“Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.”
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Successful People
“Mr. L. Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based bipedal life form descended from an ape.”
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Truth About Being Human
“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Ego, Mankind, The Human Condition
“All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: The Universe, Life
“'Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.’”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Life, Meaning, Obligation, Mankind, Human Nature, Autonomy, Existentialism
“We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.”
— Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
Tagged: Life, Earth, humans, Mankind
“It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Happiness, humanity, Mankind
“I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Questioning
“Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.”
— Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Tagged: Life
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“You’re paid a lot and you’re not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don’t want or need—for which you need more money.”
— Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Tagged: Happiness, Money, Society
“And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.”
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Opportunity, Life, Meaning
“You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.’”
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Tagged: Learning, Learning Experience, Experience
“We will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: normalcy
“And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.”
— Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
“Interactivity is a sense in itself, it brings whatever is special within the individual and allows them to put themselves into the story.”
— Douglas Adams, Douglas Adams Hyperland
Tagged: Interaction design, senses, Individuality, Tech
“He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Genius, Intelligence, Competence, Foolishness
“God's Final Message to His Creation:
'We apologize for the inconvenience.'”
— Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Tagged: God, Religion, Creation
“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”
— Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Tagged: impossible, Possibility, Pessimism
“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, Last Chance to See
Tagged: Learning, Mankind, Human Nature
“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“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, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Perception, Self-Perception, Reality
“If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Universe, Maniacs
“OK, Arthur, I've got something to tell you. Its unfortunate but its true. Your whole planet has been blown up.”
— Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Movie Quotes, Fantasy Movies
“A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.”
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Essentials, Good Advice
“"The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."”
— Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Tagged: humor, Flying, Success, Failure
“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, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Life, Reality, Dream, Illusion
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Foolishness, Fools, Mankind, Design, Development
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