Douglas Adams
Quotes by Douglas Adams
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
— Douglas Adams
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
— Douglas Adams
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
— Douglas Adams
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
— Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
— Douglas Adams
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
— Douglas Adams
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
— Douglas Adams
Life is wasted on the living.
— Douglas Adams
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
— Douglas Adams
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
— Douglas Adams
Time is bunk.
— Douglas Adams