Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
lying men asteroids
...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.
successful car getting-lost
He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.
hair profound understanding
She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.
believe paradox wells
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
eye ears hearsay
My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.
funny witty humor
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer
dream wife philosopher
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
fall tree sloth
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
mistake food thinking
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
war communication race
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
atheist philosophy-and-religion needs
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.
badass philosophy thinking
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
eye people ears
It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.
funny humor race
Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.