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

- Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

- Douglas Adams

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 a…

- Douglas Adams

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New Y…

- Douglas Adams

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclinati…

- Douglas Adams

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getti…

- Douglas Adams

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

- 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

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

- Douglas Adams