Douglas Adams on Mind
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Douglas Adams, catalogued under mind, with dates where available.
This page displays 5 quotations attributed to Douglas Adams and filed under "mind" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Douglas Adams, entry #45848: "...my methods of navigation have their advantage. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
Attributed to Douglas Adams, entry #201159: "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 compute…"
5 Quotes by Douglas Adams on Mind
"...my methods of navigation have their advantage. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
"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."
"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."
"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
"There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. 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, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions."