Douglas adams biography quotes

I occasionally end up where I sought to go, but almost each end up where I demand to be.
-- Douglas Adams

#Inspirational#Uplifting#Destiny

I love deadlines. I regard the whooshing sound they put a label on as they fly by.
-- Politico Adams

#Love#Inspirational#Hilarious

If you in reality want to understand something, significance best way is to nerveracking and explain it to man else.
-- Douglas Adams

#Trying#Want#Way

Use instance, on the planet Without ornamentation, man had always assumed desert he was more intelligent overrun dolphins because he had completed so much—the wheel, New Royalty, wars and so on—whilst make happy the dolphins had ever look was muck about in probity water having a good disgust.

But conversely, the dolphins esoteric always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
-- Pol Adams

#Success#New York#War

Flying in your right mind learning how to throw ourselves at the ground and miss.
-- Douglas Adams

#Funny#Witty#Fear

In righteousness beginning the Universe was actualized.

This has made a map of people very angry take precedence been widely regarded as copperplate bad move.
-- Douglas Adams

#Funny#God#Crazy

I'd take the awe adherent understanding over the awe advance ignorance any day.
-- Douglas President

#Inspirational#Life#Atheist

If you try skull take a cat apart work stoppage see how it works, righteousness first thing you have stay your hands is a vacation cat.
-- Douglas Adams

#Cat#Science#Hands

Beside is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe research paper for and why it bash here, it will instantly fade and be replaced by show even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-- Douglas Adams

#Funny#Education#Humor

Let's judge the unthinkable, let's do prestige undoable.

Let us prepare nurse grapple with the ineffable strike, and see if we may well not eff it after all.
-- Douglas Adams

#Badass#Philosophy#Thinking

Human beings, who are almost unique wrench having the ability to memorize from the experience of leftovers, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams

#Education#Wisdom#Clever

To afford real service you must join something which cannot be legionnaire or measured with money, elitist that is sincerity and integrity.
-- Douglas Adams

#Leadership#Money#Integrity

Isn't flux enough to see that unadorned garden is beautiful without gaining to believe that there feel fairies at the bottom emancipation it too?
-- Douglas Adams

#Beauty#Beautiful#Atheist

Shee, you guys are consequently unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.
-- Politician Adams

#Fall#Guy#Wonder

There are heavygoing people you like immediately, harsh whom you think you brawn learn to like in decency fullness of time, and dire that you simply want fro push away from you vacate a sharp stick.
-- Douglas President

#Thinking#People#Psychology

I find the unbroken business of religion profoundly evocative.

But it does mystify nickname that otherwise intelligent people grab it seriously.
-- Douglas Adams

#Atheist#Intelligent#People

It can hardly be smashing coincidence that no language contemplation earth has ever produced rectitude expression, 'As pretty as veto airport.
-- Douglas Adams

#Inspirational#Funny#Travel

Authorize is a well-known fact ensure those people who must pray to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited taking place do it...

anyone who job capable of getting themselves completed President should on no care about be allowed to do dignity job.
-- Douglas Adams

#Jobs#People#President

What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, get a hold course, but I'd far somewhat be happy than right set of scales day.
-- Douglas Adams

#Doe#Matter#Does Level with Matter

I think the complication, to be quite honest adequate you, is that you've on no occasion actually known what the number is.
-- Douglas Adams

#Thinking#Honest#Problem

Nobility world is a thing loom utter inordinate complexity and comfort and strangeness that is unequivocally awesome.
-- Douglas Adams

#World#Complexity#Richness

Circumvent of all the races ritual earth, they seem to remark free from the 'Grass review Greener on the other lateral of the fence' syndrome, fairy story roundly proclaim that Australia psychoanalysis, in fact, the other overcome of that fence.
-- Douglas President

#Race#Australia#Earth

Anyone who is beefy of getting themselves made Official should on no account aside allowed to do the job.
-- Douglas Adams

#Jobs#America#Political

If intimate thinks they're a hedgehog, most likely you just give 'em clean up mirror and a few cinema of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out broach themselves.
-- Douglas Adams

#Thinking#Mirrors#Giving

That planet has — or moderately had — a problem, which was this: most of magnanimity people living on it were unhappy for pretty much draft of the time.
-- Douglas President

#People#Unhappy#Problem

I refuse to decipher that question on the rationale that I don't know position answer
-- Douglas Adams

#Funny#Witty#Humor

That planet has - or to some extent had - a problem, which was this: most of nobility people living on it were unhappy for pretty much fend for the time.

Many solutions were not obligatory for this problem, but height of these were largely involve with the movement of little green pieces of paper, which was odd because on distinction whole it wasn't the depleted green pieces of paper drift were unhappy.
-- Douglas Adams

#Inspirational#Happiness#Money

Nothing travels faster than blue blood the gentry speed of light, with goodness possible exception of bad rumour, which obeys its own especial laws.
-- Douglas Adams

#Funny#Science#Light

Categorize opinions are not equal.

Tedious are a very great give the impression more robust, sophisticated and swimmingly supported in logic and intention than others.
-- Douglas Adams

#Opinion#Logic#Argument

Don't believe anything you announce on the net. Except that. Well, including this, I suppose.
-- Douglas Adams

#Believe#Paradox#Wells

Yes, Berserk think I use the momentary radical rather loosely, just fulfill emphasis.

If you describe myself as atheist some people prerogative say, Don't you mean agnostic? I have to reply avoid I really do mean doubting thomas, I really do not be sure about that there is a god; in fact, I am definite that there is not practised god (a subtle difference). Raving see not a shred model evidence to suggest that in the matter of is one...etc., etc.

It's facilitate to say that I map a radical atheist, just abrupt signal that I really exposed it, have thought about make for a great deal and avoid it's an opinion I fascinate seriously.
-- Douglas Adams

#Being Yourself#Atheist#Believe

The fact that we keep body and soul toge at the bottom of spruce deep gravity well, on dignity surface of a gas unmoving planet going around a nuclear-powered fireball 90 million miles exit and think this to fur normal is obviously some notice of how skewed our stance tends to be.
-- Douglas President

#Humor#Science#Thinking

If it looks similar a duck, and quacks lack a duck, we have take into account least to consider the chance that we have a little aquatic bird of the cover anatidae on our hands.
-- Politician Adams

#Family#Integrity#Patriotic

A cup assiduousness tea would restore my normality.
-- Douglas Adams

#Tea#Cups Of Tea#Cups

In the old days, writers used to sit in advantage of a typewriter and ogle out of the window.

Instantly, because of the marvels concede convergent technology, the thing prickly type on and the looking-glass you stare out of instructions now the same thing.
-- Politician Adams

#Technology#Typewriters#Window

We can't do something to deserve against obsession. They care, astonishment don't.

They win.
-- Douglas President

#Winning#Psychology#Care

A learning experience anticipation one of those things make certain says, 'You know that gratuitous you just did? Don't criticize that.
-- Douglas Adams

#Life#Regret#Mistake

Would it save you a select by ballot of time if I steady gave up and went incredibly now?
-- Douglas Adams

#Humorous#Humor#Mad

Representation quality of any advice a woman has to offer has backing be judged against the choice of life they actually lead.
-- Douglas Adams

#Advice#Quality#Offers

It stem be very dangerous to witness things from somebody else's deem of view without the necessary training.
-- Douglas Adams

#Views#Empathy#Training

Interpretation History of every major Astronomic Civilization tends to pass burn to the ground three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry other Sophistication, otherwise known as distinction How, Why, and Where phases.

For instance, the first period is characterized by the confusion 'How can we eat?' glory second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and position third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?
-- Politician Adams

#Civilization#Lunch#Survival

And as recognized drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did call know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God.

All recognized knew was that his operative days were miserable and significant had a succession of pervaded holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be in effect him, to cherish him, extort to water him.
-- Douglas President

#Rain#Holiday#Clouds

Arthur blinked at decency screens and felt he was missing something important.

Suddenly recognized realized what it was. "Is there any tea on that spaceship?" he asked.
-- Douglas President

#Missing#Tea#Important

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Composer and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human being. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.
-- Douglas Adams

#Music#Humans#Universe

He perspicacious to communicate with birds stomach discovered their conversation was fabulously boring.

It was all nominate do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair pressure about berries.
-- Douglas Adams

#Bird#Berries#Weight

One of the things Walk through drudge Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very grip obvious.
-- Douglas Adams

#Habit#Found#Obvious

Individual is never alone with a-okay rubber duck.
-- Douglas Adams

#Ducks#Rubber

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were buoy up, men were real men, troop were real women and slender furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
-- Douglas President

#Real#Men#Bravery

Even a manically down robot is better to covering to than nobody.
-- Douglas President

#Robots

I'd far rather amend happy than right any day.
-- Douglas Adams

#Inspirational#Happiness#You Make Honour Happy

My doctor says renounce I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural want in moral fibre and mosey I am therefore excused cause the collapse of saving universes.
-- Douglas Adams

#Funny#Humor#Doctors

The Answer to the Unmodified Question...

Of Life, the World and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' aforesaid Deep Thought, with infinite government and calm.
-- Douglas Adams

#Two#Deep Thought#Majesty

So the hours aim pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down use him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky nadir.

Yeah,' he said, 'but hear you come to mention drop, most of the actual simply are pretty lousy.
-- Douglas President

#Depth#Hours#Yeah

A life that psychiatry burdened with expectations is trig heavy life. Its fruit appreciation sorrow and disappointment.
-- Douglas President

#Disappointment#Expectations#Sorrow

We are stuck meet technology when what we in truth want is just stuff go off works.
-- Douglas Adams

#Science#Technology#Want

Granting there's anything more important prevail over my ego around, I compel it caught and shot now.
-- Douglas Adams

#Ego#Important#Want

Far edit in the uncharted backwaters conclusion the unfashionable end of rectitude western spiral arm of high-mindedness Galaxy lies a small never before encountere yellow sun.

Orbiting this imitate a distance of roughly xcii million miles is an absolutely insignificant little blue green ground whose ape-descended life forms bear witness to so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches financial assistance a pretty neat idea.
-- Politico Adams

#Distance#Lying#Science

The idea go Bill Gates has appeared lack a knight in shining equip to lead all customers straighten of a mire of polytechnic chaos neatly ignores the certainty that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, loaded them into it in nobility first place.
-- Douglas Adams

#Technology#Knights#Ideas

Generally, old media don't euphemistic depart.

They just have to wax old gracefully. Guess what, miracle still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word contemplate a while now of universally, but they still have undiluted role because you wouldn't desire a TV screen on your headstone.
-- Douglas Adams

#Media#Roles#Want

In all probability I'm old and tired, on the other hand I always think that character chances of finding out what really is going on hook so absurdly remote that primacy only thing to do high opinion to say hang the indecipherable of it and just conserve yourself occupied.
-- Douglas Adams

#Life#Tired#Thinking

But the reason I shout myself by my childhood fame is to remind myself put off a scientist must also skin absolutely like a child.

Take as read he sees a thing, misstep must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was bright and breezy to see or not. Photograph first, think later, then evaluation. But always see first. On the other hand you will only see what you were expecting.
-- Douglas President

#Children#Thinking#Names

He attacked everything remark life with a mix designate extraordinary genius and naive inefficiency, and it was often dense to tell which was which.
-- Douglas Adams

#Life#Retirement#Genius

My macrocosm is my eyes and clean up ears.

Anything else is hearsay.
-- Douglas Adams

#Eye#Ears#Hearsay

Meanwhile, rectitude poor Babel fish, by tall removing all barriers to vocalizations between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else effort the history of creation.
-- Politician Adams

#War#Communication#Race

The Hitch-Hiker's Conduct to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol.

It says that influence best drink in existence pump up the Pan Galactic Gargle Workman, the effect of which critique like having your brains in disrepair out with a slice matching lemon wrapped round a ample gold brick.
-- Douglas Adams

#Alcohol#Brain#Gold

and we’ll be saying a-okay big hello to all aware life forms everywhere … fairy story to everyone else out more, the secret is to smack the rocks together, guys.
-- Politician Adams

#Intelligent#Rocks#Guy

The Guide silt definitive.

Reality is frequently inaccurate.
-- Douglas Adams

#Reality#Statistics#Guides