Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams

English author
11 March 1952 — 11 May 2001

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You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

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If there`s anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Funny [...] how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

Once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.

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Protect me from knowing what I don`t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don`t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.

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.

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

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.

Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation — every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.

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