Douglas Adams Quotes

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make
as they fly by.

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

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent
than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the
wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins
had ever done was muck about in the water having a
good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always
believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for
precisely the same reason.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong
and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a
thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually
turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended
up where I intended to be.

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men,
women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were
real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody 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.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

~~Quote from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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"`...You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anyone or anything.'
`But the plans were on display...'
`On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.'
`That's the display department.'
`With a torch.'
`Ah, well the lights had probably gone.'
`So had the stairs.'
`But look you found the notice didn't you?'
`Yes,' said Arthur, `yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".'"

-- Arthur singing the praises of the local council planning department (on their wisdom in their choice of location to display plans to build an intergalactic highway through the space currently occupied by Earth...and their subsequent plans to get rid of Earth because it was in the way)

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