Douglas Adams II

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

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

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.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst 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 reasons.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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

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.

Reality is frequently inaccurate.

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