You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass. 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 cat science hands We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying. Douglas Adams endangered-species climate-change trying 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 computer differences stupid 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 argument logic opinion 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 money happiness inspirational 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 perceive experience way A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that. Douglas Adams regret mistake life The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Douglas Adams life-decision quality advice 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 religious beautiful beauty Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots Douglas Adams philosopher dreamer idiot 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 dream inspiring life Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? Douglas Adams arthur-dent mad humorous 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 currents work-out mind God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. Douglas Adams atheism atheist religion 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 maturity order children 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 careers might order The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making. Douglas Adams hardest assumption challenges 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 running people years 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 causes happens order There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick. Douglas Adams psychology people thinking
