Facts Quotes by Douglas Adams

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life…

— Douglas Adams

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

— Douglas Adams

A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was…

— Douglas Adams

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going…

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My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms…

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The idea that Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft) has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all…

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Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of…

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“For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in…

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The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of…

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Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any…

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There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the…

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We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we…

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

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People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a…

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

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The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked…

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My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in…

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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and…

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In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time…

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The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as…

— Douglas Adams

Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole…

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The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the…

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The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink…

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In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well…

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

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If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what…

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In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an…

— Douglas Adams