Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. – Douglas Adams
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. – Douglas Adams
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. – Douglas Adams
And wow! Hey! What’s this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like… ow… ound… round… ground! That’s it! That’s a good name — ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me? – Douglas Adams
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. – Henry Bessemer (discovered new method of producing steel)