People Quotes by Douglas Adams

Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.

— Douglas Adams

And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

— Douglas Adams

Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

— Douglas Adams

A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.

— Douglas Adams

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

— Douglas Adams

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

— Douglas Adams

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

— Douglas Adams

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

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Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from…

— Douglas Adams

Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet…

— Douglas Adams

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital…

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The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable…

— Douglas Adams

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and…

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Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.” “Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces…

— Douglas Adams

It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their…

— Douglas Adams

Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar…

— Douglas Adams

I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the…

— Douglas Adams

... The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people…

— Douglas Adams

David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than…

— Douglas Adams

It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite…

— Douglas Adams

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing…

— Douglas Adams

I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new…

— Douglas Adams

Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery…

— Douglas Adams

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are…

— Douglas Adams

If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never…

— Douglas Adams

Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will…

— Douglas Adams

We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom…

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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports…

— Douglas Adams

“I certainly don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don’t believe…

— Douglas Adams

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from…

— Douglas Adams

The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA , then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels…

— Douglas Adams

“POPULATION: None. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space…

— Douglas Adams

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

— Douglas Adams

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

— Douglas Adams

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom…

— Douglas Adams

Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's…

— Douglas Adams

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy…

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I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a…

— Douglas Adams