Douglas Adams quotes

" I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. " # Action

" Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. " # Airplane and Aviation # Freedom # Power

" You live and learn. At any rate, you live. " # Learning

" Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. " # Responsibility # President # Politics

" It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. " # Mistakes # Problems # Zen

" I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. " # Love

" Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. " # Loneliness # Illusion # Time and Time Management

" A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. " # Trying # Mistakes # Common Sense

" Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. " # Ancestry # Love # Humility

" We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphising animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on to them, where they were inappropriate and didn't fit. We simply had no idea what it was like being an extremely large lizard, and neither for that matter did the lizard, because it was not self-conscious about being an extremely large lizard, it just got on with the business of being one. To react with revulsion to its behaviour was to make the mistake of applying criteria that are only appropriate to the business of being human. " # Utopia