Ed > Ed's Quotes

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“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, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me 'Well, you haven't been there, have you? You haven't seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid' - then I can't even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is. I don't think the matter calls for even-handedness at all.”
― 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, Mostly Harmless

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

“People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”
― Benjamin Brewster

“You can observe a lot just by watching.”
― Yogi Berra

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
― Denis Waitley

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities

“If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.”
― Scott Adams, Dilbert Gives You the Business

“I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise. ”
― Noel Coward

“I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. ”
― Noel Coward

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Exile

“And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo