Writer Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001) left behind some of my all time favorite quotes:
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Anything that happens, happens. Anthing 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.
Tags: incompetence, fools, chronological order, left behind, ingenuityIt’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.
