Douglas Adams: Quotes about thinking (page 2)

Douglas Adams was English writer and humorist. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.
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“Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you.”

Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Hope , Thinking

“Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.”

Douglas Adams

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Way , Imagination , Thinking

“He sniggered.
He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.”

Douglas Adams book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Thinking , Personality

“If we think that the world is here for us we will continue to destroy it the way we have been destroying it, because we think we can do no harm.”

Douglas Adams

Parrots, the Universe and Everything (2001)

World , Way , Thinking

“I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.”

Douglas Adams

Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires TV program (1996) http://www.pbs.org/nerds/part1.html

People , Thinking , Personality