Which Douglas Adams quotes are the best is a matter of opinion. Douglas Adams was a writer, actor, radio personality, poet, and all around wise guy with a way with words. Here, in my opinion, are the best Douglas Adams quotes.
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER ONE A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools .
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER TWO Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job .
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER THREE Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss .
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER FOUR For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen .
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER FIVE 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
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER SIX He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER SEVEN Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so .
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER EIGHT I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER NINE I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER TEN If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands .
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER ELEVEN It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER TWELVE Life is wasted on the living .
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER THIRTEEN The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks .
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER FOURTEEN 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 and repair .
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER FIFTEEN The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind .
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER SIXTEEN 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.
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER SEVENTEEN To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity .
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER EIGHTEEN We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.
BEST DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTES NUMBER NINETEEN You live and learn. At any rate, you live .
