Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
way perceive universe
Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.
funny god crazy
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
humor science thinking
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
funny witty fear
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
trying way want
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
love inspirational hilarious
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
inspirational uplifting destiny
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
success new-york war
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
disappointment expectations sorrow
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
advice quality life-decision
The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
anyone bizarre disappear discovers exactly instantly reason replaced states theory universe
There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly 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 that states that this has already happened.
atheist message send
American Atheists: What message would you like to send to your Atheist fans?Douglas Adams: Hello! How are you?
concerned green largely living movements odd paper people pieces planet rather small solutions suggested unhappy
This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
ford listened wish
Arthur: 'It's at times like this I wish I'd listened to my mother.' Ford : 'Why, what did she say?' Arthur: 'I don't know, I never listened.'