Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
opinion logic argument
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
queens cat expression
Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know the expression.
assumption knows
Assumptions are what we don't know we are making
matter way serious
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
thinking people psychology
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.
challenges assumption hardest
The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.
technology discovery numbers
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
running thinking land
[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for waggling a bit if it thinks it's about to trip over something — but flying is out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kakapo will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a graceless heap on the ground.
tuna-fish guitar play
You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.
integrity impossible-things possible-and-impossible
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
statistics assumption knows
The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
mind facts cry
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
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.