favourite Douglas Adams quotes

In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move

It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. 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.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.


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

Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody -- maybe even disliking them a lot -- and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. It was a difference which kept the vast majority of the population alive from day to day.