Douglas Adams Quotes

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?

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

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.

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.’

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

Time is bunk.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‘freedom’ means than I see much evidence of in America.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.

There’s nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, ‘Well, okay, I’m going to do something of high artistic worth.’

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Life is wasted on the living.

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing.