Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. – Douglas Adams
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. – Douglas Adams

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. – Douglas Adams
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. – Douglas Adams
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second- rate technology, led them into it in the first place. – Douglas Adams
One always overcompensates for disabilities. Im thinking of having my entire body surgically removed. – Douglas Adams
Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)