What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
("The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")
More Quotes from Douglas Adams:
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.Douglas Adams
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
Douglas Adams
Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.
Douglas Adams
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'But,' says Man, The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'Oh dear,' says God, I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic. Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Douglas Adams
The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.
Douglas Adams
Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.
Douglas Adams
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Happiness QuotesI once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm.
Jay London
If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite.
Evel Knievel
Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.
Jonathan Krohn