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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a comic book series, a computer game, a towel and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. The series has also been adapted for live theatre using various scripts; the earliest such productions used material newly written by Adams. He was known to some fans as Bop Ad (after his illegible signature), or by his initials "DNA".
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
- You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof: Underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
- Anyone capable of becoming President can, on no account, be trusted to do the job.
- Flying = Learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
- For a moment, nothing happened.Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
- He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it.
- He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.
- I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
- If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves ...however, self-deception is a powerful reason-inhibitor.
- 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.
- Life is wasted on the living.
- Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
- Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.
- Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
- She is one of the least benightedly unintelligent, organic life-forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
- The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
- The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
- The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
- The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven't: This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.
- 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.
- This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
- Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
- The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
- Time is bunk.