There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened. Douglas Adams More Quotes by Douglas Adams More Quotes From Douglas Adams One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It’s just an awful lot of 'us.' Douglas Adams internet awful important He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for. Douglas Adams velocity usual trying Space is unimaginably big. Douglas Adams bigs space The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy." Douglas Adams tables would-be teacher Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard. Douglas Adams lizards democracy men I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there. Douglas Adams wish advice ideas The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end. Douglas Adams corporations computer faces 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 universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Douglas Adams strange-places shadow people I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA! Douglas Adams birth dna proud The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing. They teach classes in how to do this. They should teach classes in how to stop! Douglas Adams writing class book One nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive. Douglas Adams mathematical-equations party numbers The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for. Douglas Adams form three world I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer. Douglas Adams programming spending computer I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing. Douglas Adams fascination writing years It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know? Douglas Adams littles animal children [The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three words, an inherently self-contradictory expression, and that any sentence which contained such a phrase would be thereby rendered meaningless and could not, consequently, be advanced as part of an argument in favour of any given programme-scheduling strategy. Douglas Adams college men philosophy That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it. Douglas Adams seconds finals real The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye. Douglas Adams aunt eye years He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts. Douglas Adams problem personality dream If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there? Douglas Adams no-point ifs would-be
