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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer


— Douglas Adams


#wit #humor

How many roads must a man walk down?


— Douglas Adams


#science

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.


— Douglas Adams


#experience

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.


— Douglas Adams


#complete #completely #design #foolproof #fools

I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.


— Douglas Adams


#h #intelligence

Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.


— Douglas Adams


#h #humor

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?


— Douglas Adams


#humor #science-fiction #social-commentary #thumb #towel

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.


— Douglas Adams


#illusion #lunchtime #time

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.


— Douglas Adams


#humour

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


— Douglas Adams


#novelist #science-fiction #humor






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The next year the radio series became the basis for a BBC television mini-series broadcast in six parts. When he died in 2001 in California he had been trying again to get the movie project started with Disney which had bought the rights in 1998. The screenplay finally got a posthumous re-write by Karey Kirkpatrick and the resulting movie was released in 2005.

". Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988) and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983) Last Chance to See (1990) and three stories for the television series Doctor Who. He was a staunch atheist famously imagining a sentient puddle who wakes up one morning and thinks "This is an interesting world I find myself in—an interesting hole I find myself in—fits me rather neatly doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well must have been made to have me in it!" to demonstrate his view that the fine-tuned Universe argument for God was a fallacy.

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