Authors - Douglas Adams
Brief Biography
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 - 11 May 2001) was an English writer, humorist and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1156by Anonymous on 10/01/2011
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
Quote 1174by Anonymous on 11/01/2011
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Quote 1310by Anonymous on 12/01/2011
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Quote 1491by Anonymous on 14/01/2011
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.
Quote 1780by Anonymous on 16/01/2011
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.
Quote 1939by Anonymous on 19/01/2011
I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.
Quote 2823by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Quote 3863by Anonymous on 12/02/2011
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.
Quote 4033by Anonymous on 12/02/2011
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Quote 4598by Anonymous on 25/02/2011
Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while 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 reason.
Quote 8953by Anonymous on 08/06/2012
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?
Quote 9050by Anonymous on 14/06/2012
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Quote 13723by Anonymous on 27/08/2013
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
