What are some other good quotes by Douglas Adams?

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." "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." "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer" - Douglas Adams

What is the best Linguistics quote?

"Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party, a creak on the stair, a spluttering match held to a frosted pane, the warm wet, trusting touch of a leaking nappy, the hulk of a charred Panzer, the underside of a granite boulder, the first downy growth on the upper lip of a Mediterranean girl, cobwebs long since overrun by an old Wellington boot." - Douglas Adams

What are some short Linguistics quotes?

"Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines." - Douglas Adams "Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern." - Douglas Adams "There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome." - Douglas Adams