Douglas Adams Quotes

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

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

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

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

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.

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

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

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.