Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams was an English author, humorist, and dramatist.

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

- 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?

- Douglas Adams

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

- Douglas Adams

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others.

- Douglas Adams

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

- Douglas Adams

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

- Douglas Adams

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

- Douglas Adams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

- Douglas Adams

All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it’s pretty damn complicated in the first place.

- Douglas Adams