Douglas Adams Quotes
Most popular Douglas Adams Quotes
![Life is wasted on the living. - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/53/51653A-life-is-wasted-on-the-living-douglas-adams.png)
Life is wasted on the living.
![I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/98/29098A-i-love-deadlines-i-love-the-whooshing-noise-they-make-douglas-adams.png)
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
![The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/17/33517A-the-impossible-often-has-a-kind-integrity-which-merely-improbable-douglas-adams.png)
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
![A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/22/30522A-a-life-that-is-burdened-with-expectations-is-heavy-life-douglas-adams.png)
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
![Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/22/36522A-nothing-travels-faster-than-the-speed-light-with-possible-exception-douglas-adams.png)
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
![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 quote.](/img/q/49/25749A-isnt-it-enough-to-see-that-garden-is-beautiful-without-douglas-adams.png)
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?
![He is the greatest musician of the English language, and exploring variations of familiar material is what musicians do all day. - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/78/42678A-he-is-the-greatest-musician-of-english-language-exploring-variations-douglas-adams.png)
He is the greatest musician of the English language, and exploring variations of familiar material is what musicians do all day.
![Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through. - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/68/42168A-words-used-carelessly-as-if-they-did-not-matter-any-douglas-adams.png)
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
![A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/73/29373A-a-common-mistake-that-people-make-when-trying-design-something-douglas-adams.png)
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
![And now we have the World Wide Web (the only thing I know of whose shortened form—www—takes three times longer to say than what it's short for). - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/37/33837A-and-now-we-have-the-world-wide-web-only-thing-douglas-adams.png)
And now we have the World Wide Web (the only thing I know of whose shortened form—www—takes three times longer to say than what it's short for).
![You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that." - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/58/30558A-you-know-what-a-learning-experience-is-learning-experience-is-douglas-adams.png)
You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."
![Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see. - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/74/28074A-only-a-child-sees-things-with-perfect-clarity-because-it-douglas-adams.png)
Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.
![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. - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/57/30557A-human-beings-who-are-almost-unique-having-ability-learn-from-douglas-adams.png)
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.
![A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/85/28485A-a-computer-terminal-is-not-some-clunky-old-television-with-douglas-adams.png)
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.
![There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again. - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/66/35066A-theres-always-a-moment-when-you-start-fall-out-love-douglas-adams.png)
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.
!['I refuse to prove that I exist' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.' 'Oh,' says man, 'but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D.' 'Oh, I hadn't thought of that,' says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. - Douglas Adams quote.](/img/q/62/52762A-i-refuse-to-prove-that-i-exist-says-god-proof-douglas-adams.png)
'I refuse to prove that I exist' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.' 'Oh,' says man, 'but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D.' 'Oh, I hadn't thought of that,' says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.