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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.

Design, Foolproofing, Human Nature, Humor, Underestimation

A common mistake that people make when trying to design

A common mistake that people make when trying to design

A common mistake that people make when trying to design

Douglas Adams’s Quotes On Topics

Underestimation | Medical Absurdity | Mythology | Ego | Life | Children | Recklessness | Impossibility | Behavior | Unintended Consequences | Expectation | Weakness | Extraterrestrial Life | Islands | Proof | Media Evolution | Inner Thoughts | Religion | Life Quality | Tradition | More

More Douglas Adams Quotes

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory, which states that this has already happened.”

Universe, Purpose, Humor, Philosophy, Theories

“Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.”

Wealth, Inequality, Social Commentary, Satire, Class

“I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse.”

Sarcasm, Apocalypse, Humor, Expectations, Evening

“Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”

Books, Technology, Metaphor, Change, Reading

“My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.”

Perception, Reality, Senses, Skepticism, Personal Universe

“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.”

Learning, Human Nature, Irony, Experience, Wisdom

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

Happiness, Correctness, Priorities, Contentment, Personal Philosophy

“This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”

Time, Confusion, Humor, Days, Personal Quirks

“The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.”

Description, Confusion, Humor, Facial Expressions, Personification

“Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.”

Casting, Self-perception, Humor, Film, Hypothetical

“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.”

Universe, Complexity, Perspective, Knowledge, Humor

“The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.”

Space, Scale, Imagination, Truth, Perspective

“Why? is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.”

Questions, Language, Philosophy, Humor, Curiosity

“Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”

Existentialism, Technology, Humor, Life Cycle, Consumerism

“The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.”

Causality, Complexity, Analysis, Philosophy, Understanding

“This Introduction to the Introduction to the New Edition is a highly significant one in the history of Introductions. Its presence on these pages means that this book has achieved the World Record for the Number of Introductions in a Book of This Nature.”

Humor, Writing, Books, Records, Absurdity

“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”

Opinions, Logic, Argument, Quality, Critical Thinking

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

Understanding, Teaching, Learning, Communication, Knowledge

“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”

Knowledge, Futility, Occupation, Perspective, Resignation

“The light was only just visible – except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.”

Perception, Existence, Philosophy, Light, Observation