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Douglas Adams Quotes - Page 11

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We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to

We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble.

Nice, Order, Strange Places

Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

Good Friend, Friendly, Cyberspace

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

Thinking, Doe, Logic

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.649, Pan Macmillan

What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched into the most extraordinary and spectacular fit of coughing which caught Arthur so much by surprise that he started to choke violently, discovered he was already doing it and got thoroughly confused.

Confused, Men, Mind

Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

Moving, Moving Forward, Past

Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

Life is wasted on the living.

Love, Life, Sex

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.212, Del Rey

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.

Mind, Facts, Cry

Douglas Adams (2014). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

Thinking, People, Statistics

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.282, Pan Macmillan

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

People, Religion, Atheism

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.

Ideas, Facts, Fit

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

Goosnargh," said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be.

Special, Used, Should

Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.

Horse, Animal, Ordinary

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ch. 2 (1987)

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

Cat, Thinking, Milk

Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. -Marvin

Dream, Sweet, Hate

Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.126, Pan Macmillan

It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-ass.

Smart, Science, Lynching

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.

Nice, Home, Numbers

Douglas Adams' remarks at Brown University, circa 1994.

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.

Missing, Tea, Important

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.

God, Finals, Messages

You barbarians!' he yelled. 'I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled...until...until...until...until you've had enough.' Ford was running after him. Very very fast. 'And then I will do it again!' yelled Arthur, 'And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will jump on them!

Running, Littles, Barbarians

In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.

Reality, Cases, Discrepancies

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.223, Del Rey

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.

Successful, Boredom, Dull

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.

Two, Facts, Computer

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't

Phones, Needs, Way

...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

Pleasure, Universe

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.

Robots

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

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