More quotes by Douglas Adams

"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure."
"Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)"
"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer"
"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."