All Douglas Adams Quotes
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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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.
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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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