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"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."-- John Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.-- Douglas Adams
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.-- Morticia Adams
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.-- John Keats
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.-- John Simon
"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'as pretty as an airport' exist."-- Douglas Adams
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."-- Douglas Adams
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds.
Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.-- Mike Adams
"All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with."-- Adam Richardson
"The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry."-- Douglas Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
-- Henry Brooks Adams
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."-- John Gilmore
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.-- John Donne
"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."-- John Galsworthy
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
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."-- John Ciardi
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.-- John Stuart Mill
Quality without creativity is pompous;
Creativity without quality is infantile.-- John Cerruti
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.-- John LeCarre
"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."-- Scott Adams
"Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being."-- John Updike
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.-- John Gall ("Systemantics")
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.-- Adam Smith
"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."-- Douglas Adams
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.-- John Keats
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.-- John Gardner
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.-- John Cleese
Poetry is the mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.-- John Masefield
"Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews."-- John Updike
You probably go to museums and complain that Monet pressed down too hard with his crayons because the picture is all bumpy.-- John Woods
"You know they've reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?"
"Really?" said Arthur. "No I didn't. For what offense?"
Trillian frowned. "What do you mean, offense?"
"I see."-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth.-- Douglas Adams (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
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 or repair.-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.-- John Burroughs
"Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see."-- Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency)
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves.-- John Berger
Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand gay guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"-- John Stewart
The great enemy of truth is often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.-- John F. Kennedy
Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.-- Douglas Adams
'Anything that happens, happens'
'Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.'
'Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.'
'It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.'-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexeplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio scripts)