A good laugh...and something to think about.

I found those pretty smart excerpts from novels by a man called Douglas Adams. They are also funny. Check them out.

...Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.

- Douglas Adams, In Evil

Arthur Dent hoped and prayed there wasn't an afterlife. Then, realizing the contradiction, he merely hoped there wasn't an afterlife.

- Douglas Adams, In Literature/Douglas Adams

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

- Douglas Adams, In Politics

"The Lord knows I'm not an 'evil person!'" "Ah-ha! You just said The Lord that means you believe in...." "Yes, The Lord is the name of my cat."

- Douglas Adams, In Literature/Douglas Adams

...was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking... he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomabily into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extrodinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

- Douglas Adams, In Literature/Douglas Adams

Apparently, we need to think about the building being inhabited by dragons and look at it in terms of how a dragon would move around it. So, if a dragon wouldn’t be happy in the house, you have to put a red fish bowl here or a window there. This sounds like complete and utter nonsense, because anything involving dragons must be nonsense—there aren’t any dragons, so any theory based on how dragons behave is nonsense. What are these silly people doing, imagining that dragons can tell you how to build your house?

- Douglas Adams, In Literature/Douglas Adams

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so

- Douglas Adams, In Literature/Douglas Adams

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. (!!!)

- Douglas Adams, In Literature/Douglas Adams

The problem with designing something completley foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of a complete fool.

- Douglas Adams, In Literature/Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I specially love the swooshing sounds they make as they fly by.

- Douglas Adams, In Literature/Douglas Adams

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

- Douglas Adams, In Literature/Douglas Adams

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -

- Douglas Adams, "Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy" ( $ ), In Literature/Douglas Adams

On the way back, they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life, and the obliteration of all other life forms.

- Douglas Adams, "Life, the Universe, and Everything" ( $ ), In Literature/Douglas Adams

Well I think we've sorted all that out now. If you'd like to know, I can tell you that in your Universe you move freely in three dimensions that you call space. You move in a straight line in a fourth, which you call time, and stay rooted to one place in a fifth, which is the first fundamental of probability. After that it gets a bit complicated, and there's all sorts of stuff going on in dimensions 13 to 22 that you really wouldn't want to know about. All you really need to know for the moment is that the Universe is a lot more complicated then you might think.

- Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless" ( $ ), In Literature/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, "The Hitchhiker'S Guide To The Galaxy" ( $ ), In Literature/Douglas Adams


I like this type of smartass cynical stuff. They make you feel stupid. And it's always a good thing to feel stupid. Oh, yeah! It seems like in Egypt now we live in a culture where everyone feels so self-righteous and hotshot'ish.

I think we all are concealing our feeling of inferiority by feeling so awesome and supercool! Every single Egyptian seems to be living in his own little world that is so right and so good. And all our miseries are somebody else's fault! Yeah, right!