Saturday, August 1, 2009

Douglas Adams

"'Did I do anything wrong today,' he said, 'or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?'"

"The problem with designing something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of a complete fool. "

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

"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."

"Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes."

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

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

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."

"If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."

"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."

"Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy."

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