Douglas Adams Quotes And Sayings

Look At A Book. A Book Is The Right Size To Be A Book. They're Solar-powered. If You Drop Them, They Keep On Being A Book. You Can Find Your Place In Microseconds. Books Are Really Good At Being Books, And No Matter What Happens, Books Will Survive.

My Absolute Favourite Piece Of Information Is The Fact That Young Sloths Are So Inept That They Frequently Grab Their Own Arms And Legs Instead Of Tree Limbs, And Fall Out Of Trees.

I Was The Only Kid Who Anybody I Knew Has Ever Seen Actually Walk Into A Lamppost With His Eyes Wide Open. Everybody Assumed That There Must Be Something Going On Inside, Because There Sure As Hell Wasn't Anything Going On On The Outside!

For A Moment, Nothing Happened. Then, After A Second Or So, Nothing Continued To Happen.

Most Of The Time Spent Wrestling With Technologies That Don't Quite Work Yet Is Just Not Worth The Effort For End Users, However Much Fun It Is For Nerds Like Us.

The Usual Method Of Finding A Little Dongly Thing That Actually Matches A Gizmo I Want To Use Is To Go And Buy Another One, At A Price That Can Physically Drive The Air From Your Body.

I Think The Idea Of Art Kills Creativity.

I Find The Whole Business Of Religion Profoundly Interesting. But It Does Mystify Me That Otherwise Intelligent People Take It Seriously.

As A Child, I Was An Active Christian. I Used To Love The School Choir And Remember The Carol Service As Always Such An Emotional Thing.

Working Out The Social Politics Of Who You Can Trust And Why Is, Quite Literally, What A Very Large Part Of Our Brain Has Evolved To Do.

One Of The Most Important Things You Learn From The Internet Is That There Is No 'Them' Out There. It's Just An Awful Lot Of 'Us.'

We Think That The World Is A Solid, Vivid Place, Full Of Shape And Colour And Solid Objects Like This Table And This Microphone And So On, But We Actually Create That In Our Heads Out Of The Bits Of Information That Hit The Back Of Our Eyeballs Or Hit Our Eardrums Or Hit Our Tongues Or Whatever.

What The Computer In Virtual Reality Enables Us To Do Is To Recalibrate Ourselves So That We Can Start Seeing Those Pieces Of Information That Are Invisible To Us But Have Become Important For Us To Understand.

When You Write Your First Book Aged 25 Or So, You Have 25 Years Of Experience, Albeit Much Of It Juvenile Experience. The Second Book Comes After An Extra Year Sitting In Bookshops. Pretty Soon, You Begin To Run On Empty.

I Briefly Did Therapy, But After A While, I Realised It Is Just Like A Farmer Complaining About The Weather. You Can't Fix The Weather - You Just Have To Get On With It.

There's Nothing Worse Than Sitting Down To Write A Novel And Saying, 'Well, Okay, I'm Going To Do Something Of High Artistic Worth.'

I Think That The Digital Media Are Interesting Enough In Their Own Right To Be Worth Originating Something In.

I Wanted To Be A Writer-performer Like The Pythons. In Fact, I Wanted To Be John Cleese, And It Took Me Some Time To Realise That The Job Was, In Fact, Taken.

Years And Years Ago, I Did A Game Based On 'Hitchhiker's Guide' With A Company Called Infocom, Which Was A Great Company. They Were Doing Witty, Intelligent, Literate Games Based On Text.

I've Been Trying To... Having Been An English Literary Graduate, I've Been Trying To Avoid The Idea Of Doing Art Ever Since. I Think The Idea Of Art Kills Creativity.

I Think You Get Most Of The Most Interesting Work Done In Fields Where People Don't Think They're Doing Art But Are Merely Practicing A Craft And Working As Good Craftsmen. Being Literate As A Writer Is Good Craft, Is Knowing Your Job, Is Knowing How To Use Your Tools Properly And Not To Damage The Tools As You Use Them.

Computers Are Still Technology Because We Are Still Wrestling With It: It's Still Being Invented; We're Still Trying To Work Out How It Works. There's A World Of Game Interaction To Come That You Or I Wouldn't Recognise. It's Time For The Machines To Disappear. The Computer's Got To Disappear Into All Of The Things We Use.

I Was The Only Kid Who Anybody I Knew Has Ever Seen Actually Walk Into A Lamppost With His Eyes Wide Open. Everybody Assumed That There Must Be Something Going On Inside, Because There Sure As Hell Wasn't Anything Going On The Outside!

Books Are Sharks... Because Sharks Have Been Around For A Very Long Time. There Were Sharks Before There Were Dinosaurs, And The Reason Sharks Are Still In The Ocean Is That Nothing Is Better At Being A Shark Than A Shark.

I Don't Think Anybody Would Argue Now That The Internet Isn't Becoming A Major Factor In Our Lives. However, It's Very New To Us. Newsreaders Still Feel It Is Worth A Special And Rather Worrying Mention If, For Instance, A Crime Was Planned By People 'Over The Internet.'

Life Is Wasted On The Living.

Because The Internet Is So New, We Still Don't Really Understand What It Is. We Mistake It For A Type Of Publishing Or Broadcasting, Because That's What We're Used To. So People Complain That There's A Lot Of Rubbish Online, Or That It's Dominated By Americans, Or That You Can't Necessarily Trust What You Read On The Web.

I Used To Be A Great Fan Of Doing Crosswords. When You're Fiddling Around With Anagrams, You Get Wonderful Jumbles Of Syllables That Become Interesting.

I May Not Have Gone Where I Intended To Go, But I Think I Have Ended Up Where I Intended To Be.

Ever Since Newton, We've Done Science By Taking Things Apart To See How They Work. What The Computer Enables Us To Do Is To Put Things Together To See How They Work: We're Now Synthesized Rather Than Analysed. I Find One Of The Most Enthralling Aspects Of Computers Is Limitless Communication.

I Taught Myself To Play The Guitar By Listening To Paul Simon Records, Working It Out Note By Note. He Is An Incredibly Intelligent Musician. He's Not Someone Who Has A Natural Outpouring Of Melody Like Mccartney Or Dylan, Who Are Just Terribly Prolific With Musical Ideas.