# Quote — Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

> "Why are we surrounded by squirrels, and what do they want?"
>
> "I've been pestered by squirrels all night," said Arthur. "They keep on trying to give me magazines and stuff."

- Author: [Douglas Adams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams.md)
- Book: [Mostly Harmless](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/mostly-harmless.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Chapter_18) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/mostly-harmless/why-are-we-surrounded

## More from this book

> The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

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> The thing they wouldn't be expecting him to do was to be there in the first place. Only an absolute idiot would be sitting where he was, so he was winning already. A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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> One of the problems has to do with the speed of light and the difficulties involved in trying to exceed it. You can't. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/mostly-harmless/one-of-the.md)