Douglas Adams

speed of light bad news

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

― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

beginning universe created angry bad move

“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.”

― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

foolproof design

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

― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

reality inaccurate

“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”

― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

Beethoven Mozart Bach

“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”

― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

pc calculator typewriter television brochure

“First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.”

― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

dangerous point of view proper training

“It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.”

― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

problem unhappy money

"This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."

― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

believe net internet

“Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”

― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

foresee internet computer industry century

“I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.”

― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

endangered species trying

"We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying".

― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

know queastion answer meaning

"Once you know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means"

― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)