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THE TOWEL
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Small Web
DON'T PANIC
"In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy,
the Hitchhiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica
as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom."
💬 42 Quotations from Douglas Adams
Adams had a gift for making the profound seem ridiculous and the ridiculous seem profound. Here are 42 of his most quotable moments.
✨ Today's Quote
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it.
— Douglas Adams
All 42 Quotes
[1] A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.
[2] Don't Panic.
[3] The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42.
[4] Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
[5] I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
[6] The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
[7] Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.
[8] In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
[9] Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
[10] I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
[11] It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
[12] Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
[13] The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases.
[14] A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
[15] Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
[16] For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
[17] Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
[18] He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
[19] Reality is frequently inaccurate.
[20] The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
[21] Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
[22] Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
[23] You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
[24] The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it.
[25] The Guide says there is an art to flying, or rather a knack.
[26] 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.
[27] I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
[28] Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.
[29] 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?
[30] There's no point in acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years.
[31] The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
[32] So long, and thanks for all the fish.
[33] He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
[34] To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
[35] The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
[36] It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
[37] Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.
[38] We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
[39] The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
[40] See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.
[41] There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth.
[42] Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
— Douglas Adams