.hitchhikerrc

[
  {
    "quote": "The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "Mostly Harmless(Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"
  },
  {
    "quote": "See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "I'd far rather be happy than right any day.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. ",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The Universe is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of their own devising, and this is what most beings in fact do.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "No, what's this? What's this? This is nothing, yeah we're going to die.",
    "person": "Ford Prefect",
    "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
  },
  {
    "quote": "The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried about.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Mr. L. Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based bipedal life form descended from an ape.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "'Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.’",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "Last Chance to See"
  },
  {
    "quote": "It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "You’re paid a lot and you’re not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don’t want or need—for which you need more money.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul"
  },
  {
    "quote": "And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.’",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time"
  },
  {
    "quote": "We will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "Last Chance to See"
  },
  {
    "quote": "He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "God's Final Message to His Creation:\n'We apologize for the inconvenience.'",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)"
  },
  {
    "quote": "There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"
  },
  {
    "quote": "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.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "Last Chance to See"
  },
  {
    "quote": "For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "OK, Arthur, I've got something to tell you. Its unfortunate but its true. Your whole planet has been blown up.",
    "person": "Ford Prefect",
    "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "\"The Guide says there is an art to flying\", said Ford, \"or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.\"",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)"
  },
  {
    "quote": "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  },
  {
    "quote": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.",
    "person": "Douglas Adams",
    "source": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
  }
]