**QUOTES**: Douglas Adams

Source: www.brainyquote.com

Category: Writer
Date of Birth: March 11, 1952

Date of Death: May 11, 2001

Nationality: English

• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
• Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
• He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
• I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
• I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
• In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
• Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
• Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.