Douglas Adams Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Douglas Adams quotes, Douglas Adams sayings, and Douglas Adams proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. Douglas Adams
A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't . Douglas Adams
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. Douglas Adams
It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked. Douglas Adams
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
Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason. Douglas Adams
In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat. Douglas Adams
Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously. Douglas Adams
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. Douglas Adams
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. Douglas Adams
It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is woking. Douglas Adams
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Douglas Adams
The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood. Douglas Adams
Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game. Douglas Adams
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. Douglas Adams
Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food. Douglas Adams
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. Douglas Adams
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams
Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others. Douglas Adams
Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons. Douglas Adams
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. Douglas Adams
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.' Douglas Adams
A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea. Douglas Adams
A cup of tea would restore my normality. Douglas Adams
Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan. Douglas Adams
Now," said Benjy mouse, "to business." Ford and Zaphod clinked their glasses together. "To business!" they said. "I beg your pardon?" said Benjy. Ford looked round. "Sorry, I thought you were proposing a toast," he said. Douglas Adams
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer. Douglas Adams
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. Douglas Adams
What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand. Douglas Adams
There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit. Douglas Adams