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Today's quote
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
--G. K. Chesterton
Today's aphorists quote
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
--Benjamin Franklin
Today's Jazz quote
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
--Duke Ellington
Today's funny quote
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
--Steven Wright
Today's philosophers quote
Let us treat men and women well;
Treat them as if they were real;
Perhaps they are.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today's witty quote
I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.
--Ogden Nash
Quotes for the birthday of Douglas Adams
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The startling truth finally became apparent, and it was this: Numbers written on restaurant checks within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single statement took the scientific world by storm. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure, and the science of mathematics was put back by years.
--Douglas Adams 
Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.
--Douglas Adams
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.
--Douglas Adams
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
--Douglas Adams
If you've done six impossible things before breakfast, why not round it off with dinner at Milliway's, the restaurant at the end of the universe?
--Douglas Adams
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
--Douglas Adams
What I like about deadlines is the lovely whooshing sound they make as they rush past.
--Douglas Adams
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea ...
--Douglas Adams
Bistromathics is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.
--Douglas Adams
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone 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.
--Douglas Adams
