Quotes by Douglas Adams

"Life is wasted on the living."

"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

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

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

"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."

"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."

"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."

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