It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear. Douglas Adams More Quotes by Douglas Adams More Quotes From Douglas Adams If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat. Douglas Adams catsciencehands We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying. Douglas Adams endangered-speciesclimate-changetrying The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second. Douglas Adams computerdifferencesstupid All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. Douglas Adams argumentlogicopinion This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. Douglas Adams moneyhappinessinspirational Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you. Douglas Adams perceiveexperienceway A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that. Douglas Adams regretmistakelife The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Douglas Adams life-decisionqualityadvice 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 religiousbeautifulbeauty Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots Douglas Adams philosopherdreameridiot He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. Douglas Adams dreaminspiringlife Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? Douglas Adams arthur-dentmadhumorous I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good. Douglas Adams currentswork-outmind God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. Douglas Adams atheismatheistreligion Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see. Douglas Adams maturityorderchildren Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your th and th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited. Douglas Adams careersmightorder The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making. Douglas Adams hardestassumptionchallenges The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. Douglas Adams runningpeopleyears You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass. Douglas Adams tuna-fishguitarplay Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though. Douglas Adams causeshappensorder
