Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
badass philosophy thinking
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
beauty beautiful religious
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
technology discovery numbers
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
disappointment expectations sorrow
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
funny education humor
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what 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 theory which states that this has already happened.
jobs people president
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
eye people ears
It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.
tuna-fish guitar play
You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.
thinking people psychology
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.
football games vases
Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.
opinion logic argument
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
atheist intelligent people
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
inspirational funny travel
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.
fall tree sloth
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.