Douglas Adams

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

- Douglas Adams

""A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.""

- Douglas Adams

"I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons."

- Douglas Adams

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."

- Douglas Adams

"If 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."

- Douglas Adams

"I’d far rather be happy than right any day"

- Douglas Adams

"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

- Douglas Adams

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

- Douglas Adams

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

- Douglas Adams

"Another world, another day, another dawn. The early morning;s thinnest sliver of light appeared silently. Several billion trillion tons of super hot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold, and slightly damp. There is a moment in ever dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath."

- Douglas Adams

""I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.""

- Douglas Adams

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so."

- Douglas Adams

"Take control of your life. The instant you take control, interesting things will come to you."

- Douglas Adams

"A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment."

- Douglas Adams

"People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around."

- Douglas Adams

"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

- Douglas Adams

"The major problem— one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

- Douglas Adams

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."

- Douglas Adams

"This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays."

- Douglas Adams

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

- Douglas Adams

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

- Douglas Adams

"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."

- Douglas Adams

"So long, and thanks for all the fish."

- Douglas Adams

"To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money."

- Douglas Adams

"I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it."

- Douglas Adams

"So long, and thanks for all the fish!"

- Douglas Adams

"The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42."

- Douglas Adams

"The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is… Forty-two."

- Douglas Adams

"Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity-distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless."

- Douglas Adams

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."

- Douglas Adams

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

- Douglas Adams