1,082 Quotes by Douglas Adams

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things

The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in.

The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.

Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.