Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
time-travel periods
Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.
technology order careers
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
made happened universe
Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.
fall guy hitchhiking
Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.
time air land
We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.
people way strange
Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.
wise funny-life short-life
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
reality statistics guides
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
science technology want
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
nice food rain
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
winning fjords psychology
We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
life positive travel
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
tree different conversation
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
running legs arms
The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.