Author: Douglas Adams

Quotes

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

- Douglas Adams

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

- Douglas Adams

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

- Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

- Douglas Adams

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.

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.

- Douglas Adams

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

- Douglas Adams

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?

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

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