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Letter "D" » Douglas Adams Quotes
«Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.»
«It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Problems
| Keywords:
major, majors, mistake, potatoes, problems, solve, the majors
«Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.»
«Watch?? I'm gonna pray, Man! Know any good religions?»
«Life is wasted on the living.»
«We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Doubt
| Keywords:
areas, defined, demand, doubt, rigidly, uncertainties, uncertainty
«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.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Learning,
Mankind
| Keywords:
almost, apparent, beings, disinclination, human beings, remarkable, unique
«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?»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
at the bottom, beautiful, bottom, bottomed, Bottom Up, Fairies, garden, Having, The Bottom
«'My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' he muttered to himself, 'and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.'»
«It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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