Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
writing sitting artistic
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.
thinking giving want
If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.
inspirational uplifting destiny
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
love inspirational hilarious
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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.
trying way want
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
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 witty fear
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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 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.
inspirational life atheist
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
atheist philosophy-and-religion needs
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.
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.
cat science hands
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.