Douglas Adams' Quotes of Note
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
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.
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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.
posted by CBlair @ 7:19 AM
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