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Letter "D" » Douglas Adams Quotes
«A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Appreciation,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
by design, common mistake, complete, completely, design, designing, foolproof, fools, ingenuity, mistake, underestimate, underestimated, underestimates, underestimating
«The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attributes, attributing, common, common sense, hundred, list, listed, Lists of, List of, my list, number, The Last, the list, The New Yorker, top
«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 drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.»
«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.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Anatidae, aquatic, aquatic bird, at least, bird, bird of, consider, duck, ducked, ducking, family, family Anatidae, hands, looks, possibility, quack, quacks, The Family
«Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.»
«I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?»
«Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Humor
| Keywords:
And logic, and so, argument, arguments, Babel, black, blacker, Black a, bog, bogged, bogs, by chance, clinch, clinches, clinching, coincidence, coincidences, crossing, dear, dears, denies, easy going, encore, evolved, evolves, evolving, exist, existence, existence of God, final, fish, giveaway, God is dead, improbable, killed, like this, non, promptly, proof, prove, proves, puff, puffed, puffing, puffs, purely, QED, refuse, The Argument, The Blacks, The Dead Man, the existence of God, the next, The Thinker, thinkers, useful, vanished, vanishing, white, zebra, zebras, zebra crossing
«Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of»
«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.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bits, clunky, computer, connect, connecting, front, fronted, fronts, interface, in front, move, out front, television, terminal, terminals, The Terminal, the universe, typewriter, typewriters, universe
«'Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?' said Arthur. / Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh. / 'Forty-two!' he said with a malicious grin, 'No, doesn't work. Never mind.'»
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