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We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.


— Douglas Adams


#life

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.


— Douglas Adams


#paradox #advice

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.


— Douglas Adams


#equality

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.


— Douglas Adams


#science-fiction #humor

A cup of tea would restore my normality.


— Douglas Adams


#tea

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.


— Douglas Adams


#reality

Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.


— Douglas Adams


#ford-prefect #adam

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!


— Douglas Adams


#life #life

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


#ability #almost #also #apparent #beings

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.


— Douglas Adams


#allowed #anyone #capable #getting #job






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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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