Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
years two deep-thought
For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was...
two remember should
There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes
perfect worry facts
Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.
real coffee ideas
The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn't collapse when you beat your head against it.
responsibility dodge
You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist!
believe heart simple
If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not.
mother father becoming
One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with.
stress wheels take-a-deep-breath
Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.
life-is boxes
Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.
water sticks buckets
Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?
technology thinking should-have
We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"
ears sticks language
If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.
jobs president attention
Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.
raindrops responsible flood
The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.