Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adamswas an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 March 1952
assuming crosses knows
What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!
assumption knows
Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.
doe god-knows knows
"Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered."
fun ifs knows
How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?
assumption knows
Assumptions are what we don't know we are making
statistics assumption knows
The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
ford gave hollow learn malicious peace people together
Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?' said Arthur. / Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh. / 'Forty-two!' he said with a malicious grin, 'No, doesn't work. Never mind.
jobs knowing use
Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.
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.
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.
fun player computer
You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would actually respond to the audience, rather than just having the audience respond to the storyteller. I had an enormous amount of fun, actually, working on that.
sacrifice thinking self
What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because they were mine!" said Ford, crossly. I think we have different value systems." Well mine's better.
divinity likes shapes
Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.
universe
And so the Universe ended.