"Life is like a grapefruit." Douglas Adams
Is there more to that quote?
*EDIT* Found it:
"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."
Douglas Adams
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" Ronald Reagan
I read that quote today and laughed.
Here's some more Douglas Adams quotes:
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
"Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner."
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
This one is sooooo true: "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
I've felt this way: "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
"It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the product of a deranged imagination."
"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
"See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that."
"In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese and it took some time to realize the job was in fact taken."
"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose."
I'm done with the Douglas Adams quotes for now...
