Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
statistics assumption knows
The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
leadership money real
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
war communication race
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
funny science law
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
you-make-me-happy people unhappy
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
lying men asteroids
...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.
dream wife philosopher
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
family integrity patriotic
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
intelligence panic firsts
I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.
stupid kitchen realizing
It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking.
inspirational funny fake-people
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
successful car getting-lost
He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.
mind facts cry
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
running thinking land
[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for waggling a bit if it thinks it's about to trip over something — but flying is out of the question. Sadly, however, it seems that not only has the kakapo forgotten how to fly, but it has forgotten that it has forgotten how to fly. Apparently a seriously worried kakapo will sometimes run up a tree and jump out of it, whereupon it flies like a brick and lands in a graceless heap on the ground.