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.
Douglas Adams
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“So you see, the major difference between someone of my age and someone of yours is not how much I know, but how much I've forgotten.” Douglas Adams
Age, Knowledge, Memory, Wisdom, Perspective
Douglas Adams Age, Knowledge, Memory, Wisdom, Perspective“The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.” Douglas Adams
Waiting, Anticipation, Silence, Disappointment, Expectation
Douglas Adams Waiting, Anticipation, Silence, Disappointment, Expectation“The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.” Douglas Adams
Technology, Belief, Humor, Society, Automation
Douglas Adams Technology, Belief, Humor, Society, Automation“A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.” Douglas Adams
Expectations, Life, Disappointment, Wisdom, Happiness
Douglas Adams Expectations, Life, Disappointment, Wisdom, Happiness“I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.” Douglas Adams
Understanding, Questions, Problems, Philosophy, Perspective
Douglas Adams Understanding, Questions, Problems, Philosophy, Perspective“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.” Douglas Adams
Human Nature, Observation, Repetition, Humor, Alien Perspective
Douglas Adams Human Nature, Observation, Repetition, Humor, Alien Perspective“The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up.” Douglas Adams
Party, Exaggeration, Time, Humor, Persistence
Douglas Adams Party, Exaggeration, Time, Humor, Persistence“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.” Douglas Adams
Opinions, Logic, Argument, Quality, Critical Thinking
Douglas Adams Opinions, Logic, Argument, Quality, Critical Thinking“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.” Douglas Adams
Description, Humor, Science Fiction, Imagery, Contradiction
Douglas Adams Description, Humor, Science Fiction, Imagery, Contradiction“Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.” Douglas Adams
Writing Style, Evasion, Humor, Communication, Emphasis
Douglas Adams Writing Style, Evasion, Humor, Communication, Emphasis“For the next two weeks I took up playing in the traffic, being careless with kitchen knives, and neglecting to stand clear of the doors on station platforms, but, sadly, I led a charmed life, and I had to go through with it: four weeks of the greatest humiliation and embarrassment known to man or, rather, to that most easily humiliated and embarrassed of all creatures, the overgrown twelve-year-old boy.” Douglas Adams
Adolescence, Embarrassment, Humor, Fate, Recklessness
Douglas Adams Adolescence, Embarrassment, Humor, Fate, Recklessness“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.” Douglas Adams
Humor, Problem-solving, Food, Absurdity, Understatement
Douglas Adams Humor, Problem-solving, Food, Absurdity, Understatement“The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.” Douglas Adams
Internet, Language, Humor, Irony, Technology
Douglas Adams Internet, Language, Humor, Irony, Technology“Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila.” Douglas Adams
Dark Humor, Death, Cars, Alcohol, Corporate Succession
Douglas Adams Dark Humor, Death, Cars, Alcohol, Corporate Succession“The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.” Douglas Adams
Exaggeration, Thought Process, Humor, Impossibility, Mental State
Douglas Adams Exaggeration, Thought Process, Humor, Impossibility, Mental State“The Norse God of Thunder looked at her awkwardly. He had to remove his great horned helmet because it was banging against the ceiling and leaving scratch marks in the plaster.” Douglas Adams
Mythology, Humor, Description, Awkwardness, Size
Douglas Adams Mythology, Humor, Description, Awkwardness, Size“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.” Douglas Adams
Animals, Humor, Ineptitude, Information, Nature
Douglas Adams Animals, Humor, Ineptitude, Information, Nature“None of these facts, however strange or inexplicable, is as strange or inexplicable as the rules of the game of Brockian Ultra Cricket, as played in the higher dimensions. A full set of rules is so massively complicated that the only time they were all bound together in a single volume they underwent gravitational collapse and became a Black Hole.” Douglas Adams
Absurdity, Complexity, Science Fiction, Games, Humor
Douglas Adams Absurdity, Complexity, Science Fiction, Games, Humor“There is another theory that states: This has already happened.” Douglas Adams
Time, Theory, Paradox, Humor, Perspective
Douglas Adams Time, Theory, Paradox, Humor, Perspective“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!” Douglas Adams
Childhood, Clumsiness, Perception, Humor, Self-deprecation
Douglas Adams Childhood, Clumsiness, Perception, Humor, Self-deprecation