Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
Douglas Adams quotes about
humorous mad arthur-dent
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
apples might computer
I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".
alcohol brain gold
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.
money funny-life years
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
hitchhiking said hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy
Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.
ducks rubber-ducks rubber
One is never alone with a rubber duck.
time numbers space
Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.
robots
Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.
confusing lovers plates
Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.
funny-life orange life-is-like
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
dreamer philosopher idiot
Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots
advice news sound
You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose.
philosophical thought-provoking size
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
names evil bird
Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.