Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
family integrity patriotic
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
funny science law
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
you-make-me-happy people unhappy
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
beauty beautiful religious
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
leadership money real
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
funny education humor
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
men giving religion
"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
cat science hands
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
life regret mistake
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
life logic impossible
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
cat hands supposing-that
One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take that cat apart to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a non-working cat. The cat wasn't a sort of clunky mechanism that was susceptible to our available tools of analysis.
inspirational funny fake-people
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
jobs people president
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
inspirational life atheist
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.