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Douglas Noel Adams (Kkc2 1952 β 11 May 2001) was an English author and satirist, best known for his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy scripts and books.
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βI'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.β
βWe are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.β
βA learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."β
βThe Great Zaganza said: "You are very fat and stupid and persistently wear a ridiculous hat which you should be ashamed of."β
β"He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left."β
βYou are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.β
βIf we think that the world is here for us we will continue to destroy it the way we have been destroying it, because we think we can do no harm.β
βAll opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.β
β...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.β
βLet us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.β
βIf 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.β
βHow can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?β
β"β¦ Most of the words that airline staff used, or rather most of the sentences into which they were habitually arranged, had been worked so hard that they had died."β
βIt was a battered yellow CitroΓ«n 2CV which had had one careful owner but also three suicidally reckless ones.β
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Douglas Adams on Thor 2 quotes
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βIt's a tough galaxy. If you want to survive, you've gotta know...where your towel is.β
Douglas Adams on Cats 2 quotes
βI think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there's a saucer of milk in it for them.β
Douglas Adams on Universe 2 quotes
βIn the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.β
Douglas Adams on Door 2 quotes
βThe door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.β
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Douglas Adams on Astronomy
βSpace is big. Really big. You won't believe how hugely mindbogglingly big it really is.β
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Douglas Adams on Bill Gates
βThe idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.β
Douglas Adams on English people
βOf all the races in the Galaxy, only the English could possibly revive the memory of the most horrific wars ever to sunder the Universe and transform it into into what I'm afraid is generally regarded as an incomprehensibly dull and pointless game.β
Douglas Adams on Graham Chapman
βHe was the most "extremely" person I think I've ever met. It didn't really matter what the adjective was, because he would be extremely thatβwhether it was kind or unkind or good or bad or funny or not funny, I mean there was nothing he ever did that he didn't do β¦ much more extremely than anybody else would. β¦ "[S]ubversive authority figures" β¦ sounds rather like a paradox, and it's a very good paradox as far as Graham is concerned; β¦ but, actually, the person he continually subverted was himself. β¦ Because he was always this rather tweedy person on first meeting him, and that was an impression that lasted at least three seconds into any relationship. β¦ But, there was always a sort of danger there, because you never actually knew what was going to happen next.β
About Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams (Kkc2 1952 β 11 May 2001) was an English author and satirist, best known for his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy scripts and books.