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.

—Douglas Adams

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About Douglas Adams

Portrait of 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...

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

—Douglas Adams

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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.

—Douglas Adams

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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.

—Douglas Adams

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

—Douglas Adams

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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.

—Douglas Adams

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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

—Donald H. Rumsfeld

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Never find fault with the absent.

—Alexander Pope

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If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.

—John Alejandro King

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I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

—Leslie Fiedler

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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