~ Douglas Adams Quotes ~

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Douglas Adams Quotes


An English writer and dramatist. 
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.

Here are some famous quotes by Douglas Adams.

Life is wasted on the living.

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I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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

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I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

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

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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news which obeys its own set of laws.

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In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.

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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?

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I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel New York wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.