Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet. Douglas Adams More Quotes by Douglas Adams More Quotes From Douglas Adams I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse. Douglas Adams fabulous apocalypse evening The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination. Douglas Adams distance imagination simple We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble. Douglas Adams strange-places nice order The future of computer power is pure simplicity. Douglas Adams pure computer simplicity Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister. Douglas Adams sister brother time Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy. Douglas Adams space speak busy I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style Douglas Adams life-style difficulty style Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. Douglas Adams intelligent boys country I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in. Douglas Adams believe-in-god dont-believe believe For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and satisfied, drove on into the night. Douglas Adams feel-good night two He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each. Douglas Adams uncomfortable weight feet Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet Douglas Adams technology names giving The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it. Douglas Adams president hippie jobs A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't Douglas Adams phones way needs Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end. Douglas Adams six alcohol world It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs. Douglas Adams airports tired expression People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.) Douglas Adams atheist hair thinking Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars. Douglas Adams stars light journey Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. -Marvin Douglas Adams hate dream sweet I didn't notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals. Douglas Adams glad
