Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
universe
I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe
moving radio television
Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.
simple looks answers
There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.
writing ideas often-can
When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.
fun wrestling technology
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.
fun gun simple
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like it when it enables you to do fairly radical reinterpretations of human experience, just to show all the different interpretations that can be put on apparently fairly simple and commonplace events. That I find fun.
believe writing years
I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.
humorous states theory
There is another theory that states: This has already happened ....
trying rooms break
It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.
character numbers common-sense
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
stars long hitchhiking
The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.
book ideas cereal
Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this? Is it a book, is it a movie, is it a this, is it a that, is it a short story, is it a breakfast cereal?" Really, from that moment, your decision about what kind of thing it is then determines how it develops.
believe intelligent thinking
People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the public's taste" and I think that's very wrongheaded. I like to believe the audience is actually intelligent, because it's made up of other people like yourself.
art thinking media
I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.