Quotes by Douglas Adams

About Douglas Adams:

Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer, humorist, and dramatist.
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Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.” “Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.

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The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

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Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

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To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sens...

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The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.

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A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till i...

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "future perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

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Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting "Gotcha". It wouldn't have made any difference if ...

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The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.

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To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

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It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're...

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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time...

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And so the Universe ended.

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It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite numb...

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The waiter approached. 'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?' 'Huh?' said Ford. 'Huh?' said Arthur. 'Huh?' said Trillian. 'That’s cool,' said Zaphod. 'We'll meet the meat.

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The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.

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After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.

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The major problem— of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-kn...

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Trin Tragula—for that was his name—was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or as his wife would have it, an idiot.

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Si los seres humanos no dejan de hacer ejercicio con los labios, su cerebro empieza a funcionar.

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Author Bio

  • NameDouglas Adams
  • DescriptionEnglish writer and humorist
  • AliasesDouglas Noël Adams; Douglas Noel Adams
  • BornMarch 11, 1952
  • DiedMay 11, 2001
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Novelist; Children's Writer; Science Fiction Writer; Humorist; Playwright
  • WorksThe Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Pentalogy; Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency