Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books which...
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
—Oliver Markus Malloy in Inside The Mind of an Introvert