Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy developed into a “trilogy” of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Adams’s contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy’s Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990), and Last Chance to See (1990).
He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its seventeenth season. He co-wrote the sketch “Patient Abuse” for the final episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
douglas adams inspired “Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy” H2G2
List of quotes
| I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it. |
| The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Life is wasted on the living. |
| The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. |
| The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. |
| The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? |
| I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. |
| It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. |
| 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? |
| In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. |
| In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons. |
| 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. |
| I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. |
| Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. |
| I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. |
| 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. |
| He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. |
| 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. |
| For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. |
| 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. |
| Time is bunk. |
| To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. |
| We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem. |
| You live and learn. At any rate, you live. |
| A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. |
| Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. |
| Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. |