Quotes by 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

Wisdom

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

— Douglas Adams

Love

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

— Douglas Adams

Education

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

Education

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

— Douglas Adams

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Douglas Adams

Wisdom

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

— Douglas Adams

Hope

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

— Douglas Adams

Wisdom

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.

— Douglas Adams

Wisdom

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

— Douglas Adams

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Douglas Adams

Wisdom

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

— Douglas Adams

Wisdom

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

— Douglas Adams

Wisdom

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

— Douglas Adams

Wisdom

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

— Douglas Adams

Wisdom

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

— Douglas Adams

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

— Douglas Adams

Education

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

— Douglas Adams

Wisdom

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

— Douglas Adams

Wisdom

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

— Douglas Adams

Hope

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

— Douglas Adams

Wisdom