Douglas Adams quotes

Born
11 March 1952 Cambridge, England.

Occupation
Writer.

Douglas Adams was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.

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

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
– Douglas Adams

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
– Douglas Adams

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
– 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

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
– Douglas Adams

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
– 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?
– Douglas Adams

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.
– Douglas Adams

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

Time is bunk.
– Douglas Adams

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
– Douglas Adams

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
– Douglas Adams

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
– Douglas Adams

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

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

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
– Douglas Adams

I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you’re fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.
– Douglas Adams

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.
– Douglas Adams

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

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.
– Douglas Adams

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

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
– Douglas Adams