Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
atheist thinking italian
If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.
horse animal ordinary
It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.
animal borders benefits
The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.
years lasts shock
I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!
technology names giving
Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet
long doe monkeys
It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well.
moving party heart
Religion ... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. What it means is, 'Here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not? Because you're just not. If someone votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like; everybody will have an argument but nobody feels aggrieved by it. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday', you say 'I respect that'.
country boys intelligent
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.
good-friend friendly cyberspace
Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
believe believe-in-god dont-believe
I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.
distance simple imagination
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.
evening fabulous apocalypse
I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse.
humming hated humans
Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.
men splits infinitive
...to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before...