Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet. Douglas Adams More Quotes by Douglas Adams More Quotes From Douglas Adams The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. Douglas Adams possible-and-impossible impossible-things integrity It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport. Douglas Adams inspirational funny travel One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take that cat apart to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a non-working cat. The cat wasn't a sort of clunky mechanism that was susceptible to our available tools of analysis. Douglas Adams cat supposing-that hands Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill. Douglas Adams strange people way As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American. Douglas Adams cheerful dirt hardship The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish. Douglas Adams lasts stars long Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you mean agnostic? I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one...etc., etc. It's easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal and that it's an opinion I hold seriously. Douglas Adams being-yourself atheist believe Life is wasted on the living. Douglas Adams love life sex A cup of tea would restore my normality. Douglas Adams cups-of-tea cups tea WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it. Douglas Adams kitchen determination forget If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion. Douglas Adams bags taught two The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. Douglas Adams faith-religion atheism atheist Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. Douglas Adams tired life thinking People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around. Douglas Adams bully people needs Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody. Douglas Adams robots I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end". Douglas Adams apples computer might The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all). Douglas Adams six phones rings What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? Douglas Adams stupid teacher mean Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food. Douglas Adams plates confusing lovers Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there. Douglas Adams trying mean looks
