The best Quotes by Douglas Adams

The fact that all of this was happening in virtual space made no difference. Being virtually killed by virtual laser in virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.

Virtual Reality

The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Design

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

Jack Nicholson USA Canada Australia

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.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Flying

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

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

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California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - October 2022

California

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul - Season 6 Episode 5

California New Mexico

We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

Lex Luthor in Superman

California

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Gloria Swanson

California

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

Linus Torvalds

California Helsinki

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

Joan Didion

California

Things are tough all over, cupcake. An' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike... except in California.

Silk Spectre in Watchmen -

Justice California

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

Glenn Frey

Los Angeles California

That's the great thing about California, you can almost go to the mountains and almost go to the beach on the same day.

Leonard Hofstadter in The Big Bang Theory - Season 11 Episode 11

California

You know what's remarkable? That England looks in no way like Southern California.

Austin Powers in Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me

England & Great Britain California

It's the edge of the world
And all of Western civilization
The sun may rise in the east
At least it's settled in a final location
It's understood that Hollywood sells Californication

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication, Album: Californication

California

I drank when I was pregnant with you, you turned out fine. There's everybody saying 'don't drink, don't smoke'. I swear - Texas is turning into California.

Sheldons Großmutter "Meemaw" in Young Sheldon - Season 1 Episode 9

California Texas

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

Jack Nicholson

Lies Police

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

Jack Nicholson

Relationships Argument

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

Jack Nicholson

Sunglasses

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

Jack Nicholson

Beer

Lord, give me coffee to change the things I can and virtual reality to accept the things I can't.

Virtual Reality

The Metaverse is being made by Microsoft and Facebook, so you know it's gonna be boring as sh-t.

Ronny Chieng in The Daily Show

Virtual Reality

Virtual reality was once the dream of science fiction. But the internet was also once a dream, and so were computers and smartphones. The future is coming.

Mark Zuckerberg

Virtual Reality

It's harder to build a good chair than to build a skyscraper.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Design

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

Emile Zola

Design Style

Less is more.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Design Architecture

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

Nelson Mandela

USA

This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.

Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 24 Episode 5

USA Food

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Thomas Jefferson in Declaration of Independence

Human Rights USA Famous Quotes Independence Day

Canada also helped in two world wars and gave the world Neil Young, William Shatner, Leonard Cohen, Pamela Anderson, one quarter of Barney Stinson, instant mashed potatoes and best of all - you.

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 Episode 12

William Shatner Leonard Cohen Pamela Anderson Neil Young Canada

Look, if Michael Jordan's healthy, you don't let Scottie Pippen run the offense. Oh, you're from Canada, right. If Wayne Gretzky's healthy, you don't let François... what I'm saying is: hockey is stupid and I'm point guy!

Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 Episode 23

Michael Jordan Wayne Gretzky Scottie Pippen Canada Hockey

Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.

Justin Trudeau

Canada

Australia... home of every animal that seems like it should already be extinct.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Australia

In order to get cheap accommodation in Australia, we like foreign people to do manual labour for us. Helping feed the cows is very important, they are the future of McDonald's.

Ozzy Man Reviews - Royal Tour [FEAT. Prince Harry and Meghan]

Australia McDonald's

Australia... not just the country where Russell Crowe lives, but very much the Russell Crowe of countries.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Russell Crowe Australia

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

J.M. Barrie in Peter Pan

Courage Flying

It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.

Flemeth in Dragon Age

Failures & Mistakes Flying

People ask me if I could fly. I said: 'Yeah - for a little while.'

Michael Jordan

Flying

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

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