Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.
Douglas Adams
Countries, Personification, Humor, Cultural Comparisons, Stereotypes
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More Douglas Adams Quotes
“Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity – distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.” Douglas Adams
Astronomy, Infinity, Perspective, Philosophy, Insignificance
Douglas Adams Astronomy, Infinity, Perspective, Philosophy, Insignificance“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams
Space, Scale, Perspective, Humor, Comparison
Douglas Adams Space, Scale, Perspective, Humor, Comparison“If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.” Douglas Adams
Universe, Perspective, Life, Humor, Philosophy
Douglas Adams Universe, Perspective, Life, Humor, Philosophy“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.” Douglas Adams
Physics, Humor, Information, Bad News, Speed
Douglas Adams Physics, Humor, Information, Bad News, Speed“People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.” Douglas Adams
Creativity, Technology, Adaptation, Innovation, Digital Media
Douglas Adams Creativity, Technology, Adaptation, Innovation, Digital Media“The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry.” Douglas Adams
Adaptation, Humor, Definition, Creativity, Perspective
Douglas Adams Adaptation, Humor, Definition, Creativity, Perspective“Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies – what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?” Douglas Adams
Media Evolution, Technology, News, Progress, Obsolescence
Douglas Adams Media Evolution, Technology, News, Progress, Obsolescence“We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.” Douglas Adams
Reality, Perception, Universe, Relationships, Philosophy
Douglas Adams Reality, Perception, Universe, Relationships, Philosophy“The man, he believed with an instant effortlessness which would have impressed even a Scientologist, must be a God of some kind to arouse such fervour.” Douglas Adams
Belief, Religion, Humor, Perception, Faith
Douglas Adams Belief, Religion, Humor, Perception, Faith“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
Creation, Universe, Humor, Dissatisfaction, Perspective
Douglas Adams Creation, Universe, Humor, Dissatisfaction, Perspective“We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.” Douglas Adams
Technology, Perspective, Evolution, Design, Familiarity
Douglas Adams Technology, Perspective, Evolution, Design, Familiarity“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 getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” Douglas Adams
Politics, Leadership, Irony, Power, Human Nature
Douglas Adams Politics, Leadership, Irony, Power, Human Nature“The stories had claimed that people in the area had been "terrorized" by some repulsively deformed "goblinlike" creature who regularly broke out of the Woodshead and committed an impressively wide range of unspeakable acts.” Douglas Adams
Rumors, Monsters, Fear, Exaggeration, Storytelling
Douglas Adams Rumors, Monsters, Fear, Exaggeration, Storytelling“Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.” Douglas Adams
Sarcasm, Humor, Criticism, Writing, Popular Culture
Douglas Adams Sarcasm, Humor, Criticism, Writing, Popular Culture“People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.” Douglas Adams
Bullying, Psychology, Strength, Weakness, Human Nature
Douglas Adams Bullying, Psychology, Strength, Weakness, Human Nature“A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.” Douglas Adams
Nerd, Technology, Humor, Definition, Communication
Douglas Adams Nerd, Technology, Humor, Definition, Communication“Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” Douglas Adams
Age, Technology, Change, Humor, Perspective
Douglas Adams Age, Technology, Change, Humor, Perspective“Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.” Douglas Adams
Reason, Universe, Mind, Philosophy, Meaning
Douglas Adams Reason, Universe, Mind, Philosophy, Meaning“I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.” Douglas Adams
Writing, Challenges, Persistence, Self-improvement, Creativity
Douglas Adams Writing, Challenges, Persistence, Self-improvement, Creativity“I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.” Douglas Adams
Technology, Clutter, Frustration, Humor, Obsolescence
Douglas Adams Technology, Clutter, Frustration, Humor, Obsolescence