DOUGLAS ADAMS FUNNY QUOTES

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.”

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.”

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

“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

“The only way to endure is to outwit, outplay, laugh at or run away from your problems.”

“In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

“He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”

“I may be slightly different from other people, but I’m just a little more honest about it.”

“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.”

“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.” SPRINGTIME MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES

“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 folks have half a one for breakfast.”

“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”

“The Guide says there is an art to flying. Or rather, a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

“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 and repair.”

“I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”

“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.”

“I’d like to say that optimism is just a lack of information, but that’s not true. Hope springs eternal. But hope also makes you blind, deaf, and stupid.”

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

“Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let’s prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”

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

“If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ’em a mirror and a few pictures of worms and go, ‘There you are!'”