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Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter. He wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy, before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 14 million copies in his lifetime. He also adapted it into a 1981 television series, a 1984 video game and a 2005 feature film.

Quotes from Douglas Adams

This planet has—or rather had—a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

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humanity humor happiness money

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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time perception illusion

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.

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humanity learning experience

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.

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belief prayer heaven afterlife

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

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

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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

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money death taxes

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 chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

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mistake potatoes

Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.

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It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.

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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody 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.

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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

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It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars, and so on—whilst 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 reasons.

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