I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. Douglas Adams More Quotes by Douglas Adams More Quotes From Douglas Adams Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow pizza. Douglas Adams hitchhiking yellow lying Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms. Douglas Adams liquid sugar alcohol Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality. Douglas Adams personality expression writing Anything that happens, happens. Douglas Adams happens 'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.' Douglas Adams mad brilliant statistics I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say. Douglas Adams statistics people thinking 'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.' Douglas Adams voice doubt men The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning. Douglas Adams dew fallen morning If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian. Douglas Adams italian atheist thinking In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate. Douglas Adams discrepancies cases reality If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not. Douglas Adams simple heart believe The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%. Douglas Adams macintosh top-10 may The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there. Douglas Adams planets men long I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. Douglas Adams computer tasks hands The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked. But it's not true that I would rather write than read. I would rather read than write. To be honest I would rather hang upside down in a bucket than write. Douglas Adams buckets writing thinking A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of million light years from end to end. As it closed up [...] Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it...materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later. Douglas Adams light men years What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo? Douglas Adams airports atheism two Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy. Douglas Adams perfect worry world You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist! Douglas Adams dodge responsibility Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about? Douglas Adams sunset piano flower
