Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
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The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.
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How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.
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Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.
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What's so unpleasant about being drunk? You ask a glass of water
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Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds
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It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.
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Without a god, life is only a matter of opinion.
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A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
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The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
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Dave is one of my favorite sources of information and opinion on the Web. His opinions are passionately held, well-informed, intelligent, argumentative, and quite often wrong.
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules
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It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear