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Douglas Adams Quotes

Douglas Adams quotes

English Playwright, Writer March 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001

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Douglas Adams quote: "I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's..."
I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford Douglas Adams
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams quote: "I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance..."
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams quote: "We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win."
We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win. Douglas Adams
Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland) Douglas Adams
The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in. Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams quote: "Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence..."
Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers. Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams quote: "I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself."
I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself. Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams quote: "The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the..."
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. Douglas Adams
We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys. Douglas Adams
No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her. Douglas Adams
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs. Douglas Adams
The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit. Douglas Adams
The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later. Douglas Adams
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious. Douglas Adams

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