Douglas Adams Quotes

"Gunfire erupted from a window high above them, but it was only a bass player getting shot for playing the wrong riff three times in a row, and bass players are two a penny in Han Dold City."

So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams, p. 21

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy-three thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that 'it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.'" 

"'In other words -- and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded -- their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.'"

So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams, p. 177

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." 

Douglas Adams

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