Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
half life people sort wet
Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast.
thinking half hours
He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.
full gizmos half rooms
I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.
ask glass unpleasant water
What's so unpleasant about being drunk? You ask a glass of water
blank bleeds forehead paper piece stare until
Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds
amount average deranged divided follows infinite infinity known life meet merely near number people planets population products simply space time universe
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.
life matter
Without a god, life is only a matter of opinion.
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.
dave favorite information opinion opinions quite sources
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.
bad exception faster light possible special speed travels
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
bad exception faster follows news possible rules travels
Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules
appear known language phrase
It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear
normal perfectly universe
No, that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.