Douglas Adams Quotes

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

Life [had] replaced logic.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.

in nonsense is strength

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

The desire for order is the only order in the world.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.

If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?