About Douglas Adams
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...
More quotations from Douglas Adams
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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.
More quotations tagged with “money”
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
These days an income is something you can't live without—or within.
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
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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.