Douglas Adams quotes - page 2

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer. (Douglas Adams)
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? View quote
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. View quote
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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. View quote
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Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? View quote
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Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. View quote
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. View quote
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Reality is frequently inaccurate. View quote
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. View quote
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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. View quote
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? (Douglas Adams)
So long, and thanks for all the fish. View quote
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Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game. View quote
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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. View quote
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I only decide my Universe. My Universe is my eyes and my ears. Everything else is hearsay. View quote
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We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. View quote
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ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him. View quote
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The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42! View quote
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Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe. View quote
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Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. View quote
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We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win. (Douglas Adams)
It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training. View quote
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The idea that Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft) has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place... View quote
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Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off. View quote
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A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that." View quote
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Photo: Michael Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: English Author
Born: March 11, 1952
Died: May 11, 2001
Quotes count: 395
Wikipedia: Douglas Adams

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