We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like… — 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
I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is. — 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
Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just… — 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
“It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy on to the scene to make it work for him.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any… — 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