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The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.

The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.

Challenges, Assumption, Hardest

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

Hitchhiking, Thursday, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.

Believe, Believe In God, Don't Believe

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?

Beauty, Beautiful, Religious

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

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

Humorous, Profound, Doubt

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.158, Del Rey

Reality is hopelessly inaccurate.

Reality

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

Fall, Tree, Sloth

Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.110, Del Rey

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Funny, Science, Light

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.622, Pan Macmillan

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

Opinion, Logic, Argument

"The Salmon of Doubt". Book by Douglas Adams, en.wikiquote.org. 2002.

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

Leadership, Money, Educational

The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with.

Light, Chance, Window

Douglas Adams (2014). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

Inspirational, Funny, Travel

1988 The Long Dark Tea- Time of the Soul, ch.1.

Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.

Men, Democracy, Lizards

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Science, Technology, Want

Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.117, Del Rey

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Atheist, Intelligent, People

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

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Inspirational, Life, Atheist

Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

A cup of tea would restore my normality.

Tea, Cups Of Tea, Cups

"Fictional character: Arthur Dent". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", www.imdb.com. 2005.

Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.

Experience, Way, Perceive

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.292, Pan Macmillan

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

Funny, Witty, Humor

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

Thinking, People, Psychology

Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Life, Retirement, Genius

Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there.

Mean, Trying, Looks

Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.183, Del Rey

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Humorous, Mad, Arthur Dent

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.109, Pan Macmillan

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

Hands, Tasks, Computer

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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.

Funny, Education, Humor

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Seventh" (radio program) (1978)

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