Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
play roles kind
Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.
jumping snow advice
Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.
doe god-knows knows
"Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered."
space bigs
Space is unimaginably big.
men democracy lizards
Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.
space speak busy
Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.
top-10 may macintosh
The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.
morning dew fallen
The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning.
careers order might
Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your th and th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.
happens
Anything that happens, happens.
alcohol sugar liquid
Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms.
disappear states inexplicable
A theory of the universe that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for, it will disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.
past differences mind
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.
book writing class
The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing. They teach classes in how to do this. They should teach classes in how to stop!