Douglas Adams Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

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  Leadership, Money, Educational

• ... The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead, which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just generally clueless about hot stimulants.

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  Coffee, Clueless, People

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.81, Del Rey

• "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing."
  "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D."
  "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

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  Atheist, Men, Giving

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1979.

• You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number.” “Er, five,” said the mattress. “Wrong,” said Marvin. “You see?

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  Intelligent, Thinking, Numbers

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.357, Pan Macmillan

• Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting "Gotcha". It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it.' 'Why not?' 'Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end.

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  Giving Up, Garden, Apples

• If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

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  Thinking, Mirrors, Giving

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

• The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

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  Depression, Giving, Mad

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.167, Pan Macmillan

• 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.

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  Meaningful, Giving, Brain

  "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul". Book by Douglas Adams, 1988.

• I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say "Meet under the clock tower," or "Meet under the War Memorial," but "Meet under Adams.

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  War, School, Ideas

• In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

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  Stress, Giving, Tiny

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

• Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet

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  Technology, Names, Giving

• If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.

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  Thinking, Giving, Fundamentals

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.127, Pan Macmillan

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