When you blame others, you give up your power to change. Douglas Noel Adams More Quotes by Douglas Noel Adams More Quotes From Douglas Noel Adams A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Noel Adams Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Douglas Noel Adams A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless) Douglas Noel Adams Funny how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does. Douglas Noel Adams If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. Douglas Noel Adams If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news Douglas Noel Adams In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea. Douglas Noel Adams It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear. Douglas Noel Adams Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason. Douglas Noel Adams My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes. Douglas Noel Adams The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79..... Douglas Noel Adams There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Douglas Noel Adams Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. Douglas Noel Adams Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense. Douglas Noel Adams You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist Douglas Noel Adams
