Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
hands opinion difficult
It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.
people want digital
Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
nice home numbers
42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.
football games vases
Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.
tea cups cups-of-tea
A cup of tea would restore my normality.
thinking honest problem
I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
time philosophy humorous
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
world hitchhiking complexity
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
matter doe wonderful
What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
being-yourself atheist believe
Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you mean agnostic? I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one...etc., etc. It's easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.
love life sex
Life is wasted on the living.
determination kitchen forget
WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.
inspirational funny travel
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.
atheist intelligent people
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.