Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
normal perfectly universe
No, that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.
universe
And so the Universe ended.
pleasure universe
...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.
universe
I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe
said obligation universe
Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.
made happened universe
Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.
music humans universe
Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.
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.
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.
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.
drunk field goes lying
The story goes that I first had the idea for THHGTTGalaxy while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck
access besides eliminated five people suspects
Besides the pastor, there were about five people who had access to the safe, ... Those people have been eliminated as suspects through the investigative process.
arriving traveling
Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
brilliant totally utter
Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.