"... there is no such word as 'impossible' in
my dictionary. In fact, everything between
'herring' and 'marmalade' appears to be missing."
-- Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
my dictionary. In fact, everything between
'herring' and 'marmalade' appears to be missing."
-- Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Related:
- Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible, then
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer.
I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.... - Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with
things you didn't have a good answer to.
-- Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency... - Very deep. You should send that into Reader's Digest, they've got a page
for people like you.
-- Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency... - Come, let us go. Let us leave this festering hellhole.
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable.... - If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it
wasn't there .
. . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple.... - I reject that philosophy. The impossible often has a kind of
integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
-- Douglas Adams through Dirk Gently... - How can I tell...that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the
discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... - The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that
cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong
goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
-- Douglas Adams -- Mostly Harmle... - That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life
forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid
meeting.
-- Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adam...
