If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Douglas Adams
Human Nature, Loyalty, Gratitude, Cynicism, Animals
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“The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes.” Douglas Adams
Urban Life, Sensory Description, Atmosphere, City, Perception
Douglas Adams Urban Life, Sensory Description, Atmosphere, City, Perception“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” Douglas Adams
Life Lessons, Survival, Humor, Wisdom, Experience
Douglas Adams Life Lessons, Survival, Humor, Wisdom, Experience“But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.” Douglas Adams
Melancholy, Information Overload, Spirituality, Perception, Modernity
Douglas Adams Melancholy, Information Overload, Spirituality, Perception, Modernity“For all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.” Douglas Adams
Success, Boredom, Wealth, Blame, Perspective
Douglas Adams Success, Boredom, Wealth, Blame, Perspective“The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy."” Douglas Adams
Teaching, Learning, Humor, Criticism, Education
Douglas Adams Teaching, Learning, Humor, Criticism, Education“God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.” Douglas Adams
Religion, Explanation, Skepticism, Complexity, Philosophy
Douglas Adams Religion, Explanation, Skepticism, Complexity, Philosophy“Funny, how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.” Douglas Adams
Pessimism, Life, Humor, Irony, Expectations
Douglas Adams Pessimism, Life, Humor, Irony, Expectations“What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.” Douglas Adams
Happiness, Science, Priorities, Philosophy, Contentment
Douglas Adams Happiness, Science, Priorities, Philosophy, Contentment“There had been a nasty moment when his life had flashed before his eyes but he had been too preoccupied with falling and had missed all the good bits.” Douglas Adams
Near-death Experience, Humor, Distraction, Life Review, Priorities
Douglas Adams Near-death Experience, Humor, Distraction, Life Review, Priorities“Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.” Douglas Adams
Humor, Tardiness, Perception, Attitude, Self-confidence
Douglas Adams Humor, Tardiness, Perception, Attitude, Self-confidence“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“If it could not possibly be done, then obviously it had been done impossibly. The question was how?” Douglas Adams
Logic, Impossibility, Problem-solving, Humor, Paradox
Douglas Adams Logic, Impossibility, Problem-solving, Humor, Paradox“The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.” Douglas Adams
Creativity, Probability, Perspective, Ideas, Critical Thinking
Douglas Adams Creativity, Probability, Perspective, Ideas, Critical Thinking“Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.” Douglas Adams
Communication, Awkwardness, Social Interaction, Difficulty, Timing
Douglas Adams Communication, Awkwardness, Social Interaction, Difficulty, Timing“I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.” Douglas Adams
Teleportation, Wordplay, Humor, Science Fiction, Relationships
Douglas Adams Teleportation, Wordplay, Humor, Science Fiction, Relationships“It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.” Douglas Adams
Humor, Danger, Physics, Perspective, Death
Douglas Adams Humor, Danger, Physics, Perspective, Death“Shall I leave the window open or would you like to try the door?" she said with a sniff.” Douglas Adams
Sarcasm, Options, Humor, Dialogue, Attitude
Douglas Adams Sarcasm, Options, Humor, Dialogue, Attitude“One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.” Douglas Adams
Humor, Disability, Overcompensation, Absurdity, Self-deprecation
Douglas Adams Humor, Disability, Overcompensation, Absurdity, Self-deprecation“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“Of course, the computer isn't any of these things. These are all things we were previously familiar with from the real world, which we have modelled in the computer so that we can use the damn thing. Which should tell us something interesting. The computer is actually a modelling device.” Douglas Adams
Computers, Technology, Modeling, Perception, Understanding
Douglas Adams Computers, Technology, Modeling, Perception, Understanding