Douglas Adams quotes
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. 
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. 
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. 
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. 
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. 
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick. 
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 chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. 
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. 
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Adams Humor quotes ⇑
Humor Quotes
The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. 
If I ever meet myself... I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me. 
A cup of tea would restore my normality 
"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water!" 
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious. 
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.' 
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes. 
Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked. All Douglas Adams quotes ⇑
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.
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
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.
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.
We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
"Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple." "Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that."
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
