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

—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...

More quotations from Douglas Adams

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

—Douglas Adams

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

—Douglas Adams

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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.

—Douglas Adams

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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

—Douglas Adams

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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.

—Douglas Adams

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More quotations tagged with “architecture”

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

—Elvis Costello

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If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

—Arne Jacobsen

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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I installed a skylight in my apartment… the people who live above me are furious!

—Steven Wright

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History

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