Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
thinking honest problem
I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.
being-yourself atheist believe
Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you mean agnostic? I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one...etc., etc. It's easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.
love life sex
Life is wasted on the living.
matter doe wonderful
What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
world hitchhiking complexity
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
time philosophy humorous
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
eye ears hearsay
My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.
nice home numbers
42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.
tea cups cups-of-tea
A cup of tea would restore my normality.
bird weight ratios
He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.
people want digital
Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
hands opinion difficult
It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.
cat hands supposing-that
One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take that cat apart to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a non-working cat. The cat wasn't a sort of clunky mechanism that was susceptible to our available tools of analysis.
reality statistics guides
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.