1,082 Quotes by Douglas Adams

Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford

What's so unpleasant about being drunk? You ask a glass of water

What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.