“Don’t you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn’t developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don’t expect to see.”
Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“I think the idea of art kills creativity.”
Douglas Adams
“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.”
Douglas Adams
“In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.”
Douglas Adams
“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
Douglas Adams
“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”
Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.”
Douglas Adams
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
Douglas Adams
“There is no point in using the word ‘impossible’ to describe something that has clearly happened.”
Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency