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

Quote by Douglas Adams about stupidity, mistake, common sense, people

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

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

Quote by Douglas Adams about humor

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Quote by Douglas Adams about opinion, nothing, moment

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Quote by Douglas Adams about dream, life

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

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He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it.

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He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

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

Quote by Douglas Adams about wife

His study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.

Quote by Douglas Adams about public

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.

Quote by Douglas Adams about ability, experience, human imperfections

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Quote by Douglas Adams about ancestors, people, proudness

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

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

Quote by Douglas Adams about love

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

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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Quote by Douglas Adams about end, need

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Quote by Douglas Adams about rain, judges

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

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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.

Quote by Douglas Adams about family