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"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?"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: skeptic
197 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,537 people liked it

"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
— Douglas Adams

148 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life
3,718 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,279 people liked it

"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer"
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, wit
1,434 people liked it

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor
1,352 people liked it

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, perspective, science
1,026 people liked it

"The problem with designing something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of a complete fool. "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

536 people liked it

"Don't Panic"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: gets, me, some, things, through, weird
496 people liked it

"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: british, commentary, fiction, humor, science, social, thumb, towel
419 people liked it

"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 or repair."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: humor, systems
332 people liked it

"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
— Douglas Adams

260 people liked it

"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."
— Douglas Adams

tags: atheism, intelligence
179 people liked it

"Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

186 people liked it

"I don't want to die! I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!"
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor
157 people liked it

"Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet."
— Douglas Adams

151 people liked it

""So this is it. We're going to die."
"Yes...except...No! Wait a minute, what's this switch?"
"What? Where?"
"No, I was only fooling. We are going to die after all." "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: humor, science
130 people liked it

""You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen.""
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

121 people liked it

"The universe is a lot more complicated than you might think even if you start from a position of thinking that its pretty damn complicated to begin with."
— Douglas Adams

tags: complicated, universe
98 people liked it

"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
— Douglas Adams

96 people liked it

"Ford stood up. "We're safe," he said.
"Oh good," said Arthur.
"We're in a small galley cabin," said Ford, "in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet."
"Ah," said Arthur, "this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of." "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

61 people liked it

"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, science
63 people liked it

"The answer to life, the universe, and everything, is 42"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

67 people liked it

"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes."
— Douglas Adams

56 people liked it

"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

52 people liked it

""I eventually had to go down to the cellar..."
"That's the display department."
"...with a torch"
"The lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"Well, you found the notice, didn't you?"
"Yes. The plans were on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard""
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: aurthur, bypass, demolition, dent, house, humour
46 people liked it

"'I have detected disturbances in the wash.'

'The wash?'

'The space-time wash.'

'Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?'

'Eddies in the space-time continuum.'

'Ah...is he. Is he.'

'What?'

'Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?'"
— Douglas Adams (Life, the Universe and Everything)

tags: humor
43 people liked it

"Reality is frequently inaccurate."
— Douglas Adams

tags: reality
53 people liked it

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

47 people liked it

"Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves."
— Douglas Adams (The Deeper Meaning of Liff)

42 people liked it

"My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

37 people liked it

"I'd far rather be happy than right any day "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: happiness, rightness
51 people liked it

"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."
— Douglas Adams

48 people liked it

"A cup of tea would restore my normality."
— Douglas Adams

32 people liked it

"We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books."
— Douglas Adams (The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time)

29 people liked it

"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."
— Douglas Adams

tags: music, universe
38 people liked it

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humour, life, science, technology
36 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,035 people liked it

"A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter"
— Kate Chopin (The Awakening)

tags: pianist, satisfaction, surprise
1 person liked it

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