Douglas Adams Quotes

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space.

If you give me a week, I might think of one.

I only remember the future.

The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work.

Science fiction sometimes is fun because it reaches so far in the future.

Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.

Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film. They work better in the mind.

Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create entertaining scenarios that may or may not anticipate future realities.

The great thing about the 'Fast and Furious' world is everything is up for speculation. Yes, anything is a possibility.

Hollywood is an idea. It's not a real place.

I love the 'what if' nature of sci-fi.

I've always been one of those people who wondered 'What if...'

Thinking about time travel may seem like something humans have been doing since the first caveman dropped the first rock on his foot. But, even to begin to imagine the possibility of time travel, your mind must be able to wrap itself around the notion of a past and a future.

Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

I play along myself, even though I can't help the player. So I can't say what I think the answer might be. But I'll be playing in my head, while they are.

Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations... With basketball, you can correct your own mistakes, immediately and beautifully, in midair.

To do the impossible, you must be able to see the invisible.

There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.