Douglas Adams
British science-fiction writer
Lived from: 1952 - 2001
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 11 march 1952 Died: 11 may 2001
Quotes 21 till 40 of 50.
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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.
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Let 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.
Dirk Gently's holistisch detectivebureau (2016)― Douglas Adams -
Life is wasted on the living.
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Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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Reality is frequently inaccurate.
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See first, think later, then test. But always see first.
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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 chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.
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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
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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 or repair.
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The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.
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The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
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