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1 " 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 , The Salmon of Doubt (Dirk Gently, #3)
2 " 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 (Dirk Gently, #2)
3 " A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that. "
4 " This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays. "
― Douglas Adams , The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
5 " We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. "
6 " All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. "
7 " We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! "
8 " Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast. "
― Douglas Adams , So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
9 " Life is wasted on the living. "
― Douglas Adams , The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
10 " Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland) "
― Douglas Adams
11 " I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. "
12 " The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. "
13 " I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer "
14 " 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. "
15 " 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. "
16 " Don't Panic. "
17 " Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? "
18 " Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. "
19 " Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. "
― Douglas Adams , Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
20 " Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. "
