# Quote — Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

> The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

- Author: [Douglas Adams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams.md)
- Book: [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/dirk-gentlys-holistic-detective-agency.md)
- Page: 4
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dirk_Gently's_Holistic_Detective_Agency#Chapter_2) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/dirk-gentlys-holistic-detective-agency/the-electric-monk

## More from this book

> This time there would be no witnesses.

p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/dirk-gentlys-holistic-detective-agency/this-time-there.md)

> WFT-II was the only British software company that could be mentioned in the same sentence as such major U.S. companies as Microsoft or Lotus. The sentence would probably run along the lines of "WFT-II, unlike such major U.S. companies as Microsoft or Lotus ..." but it was a start.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/dirk-gentlys-holistic-detective-agency/wft-ii-was-the.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)

> The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/dirk-gentlys-holistic-detective-agency/the-seat-received.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)