Douglas Adams Quotes

Douglas Alexander is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament and held various positions in the UK government.

Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.... -Douglas Adams

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they ... -Douglas Adams

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

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.... -Douglas Adams

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word 'freedom' means than I see much evidence of in America.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the gr... -Douglas Adams

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yours... -Douglas Adams

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won... -Douglas Adams

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

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.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.... -Douglas Adams

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philoso... -Douglas Adams

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Life is wasted on the living.... -Douglas Adams

Life is wasted on the living.

Time is bunk.... -Douglas Adams

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

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