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A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I am intended to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Universe is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Trilllian had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
One nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The first thing they saw on leaving the elevator was a long concrete wall with over fifty doors in it offering lavatory… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“She thought that trying to live life according to any plan you actually work out is like trying to buy ingredients for… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Shh!" said Ford. "It's conical. So what you do is, you see, you fill it with fine white sand, alright? Or sugar.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It said that the major activities pursued on NowWhat were those of catching, skinning, and eating of the NowWhattian boghogs, which were… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The gorillas were not the animals we had come to Zaire to look for. It is very hard, however, to come all… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“POPULATION: None. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“They believe in “peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms”.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image