{"author":"Douglas Adams","author_id":"Douglas+Adams","total_quotes":315,"quotes":[{"text":"All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["complicated","universe"],"id":4863,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["humour"],"id":5009,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["psychology"],"id":6554,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"I was once in San Francisco, and I parked in the only available space, which happened to be on the other side of the street. The law descended on me. Was I aware of how dangerous the manoeuvre I’d just made was? I looked at the law a bit blankly. What had I done wrong? I had, said the law, parked against the flow of traffic. Puzzled, I looked up and down the street. What traffic? I asked. The traffic that would be there, said the law, if there was any traffic. This was a bit metaphysical, even for me, so I explained, a bit lamely, that in England we just park wherever we can find a parking space available, and weren’t that fussy about which side of the street it was on. He looked at me aghast, as if I was lucky to have got out of a country of such wild and crazy car parkers alive, and promptly gave me a ticket. Clearly he would rather have deported me before my subversive ideas brought chaos and anarchy to streets that normally had to cope with nothing more alarming than a few simple assault rifles. Which, as we know, in the States are perfectly legal, and without which they would be overrun by herds of deer, overbearing government officers, and lawless British tea importers.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["american-culture","british-culture","law","traffic"],"id":8434,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"[..] when we get down to the subatomic level, the solid world we live in also consists, again rather worryingly, of almost nothing and that wherever we do find something it turns out not to actually something, but only the probability that there may something there.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["humor","physics","quantum-mechanics"],"id":8524,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["humor","perspective","science"],"id":10542,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each individual letter in turn. The first letter was a 'w,' the second an 'e.' Then there was a gap. An 'a' followed, then a 'p,' an 'o,' and an 'l.'Marvin paused for a rest.After a few moments they resumed and let him see the 'o,' the 'g,' the 'I,' the 'z,' and the 'e.'The next two words were 'for' and 'the.' The last one was a long one, and Marvin needed another rest before the could tackle it.It started with 'I,' then 'n,' then 'c.' Next came an 'o' and an 'n,' followed by a 'v,' an 'e,' another 'n,' and an 'I.'After a final pause, Marvin gathered his strength for the last stretch.He read the 'e,' the 'n,' the 'c,' and at last the final 'e,' and staggered back into their arms.'I think,' he murmured at last from deep within his corroding, rattling thorax, 'I feel good about it.'The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["death","last-words","life"],"id":11387,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.'Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["funny"],"id":12572,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That’s what we need to think about.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["inspiration","truth"],"id":18595,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["science-fiction"],"id":19111,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":315,"pages":32,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}