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Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
English Writer
Born: Mar 11, 1952
Died: May 11, 2001
Me People Think Time Worth You
Related authors: Agatha Christie Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. Douglas Adams
Fly Must Simply Miss Order Ground
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. Douglas Adams
Time Illusion Doubly Lunchtime
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that. Douglas Adams
You Will First Think Otherwise Later See Only Most Always Test Scientists Were Forget Expecting Then
I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is. Douglas Adams
Half More Gizmos Know Got Importantly Any Where Want Little Rooms Full Even Thing Things
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
Hoped He Merely Involved Prayed Contradiction Afterlife Realized Then Here
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. Douglas Adams
Reality Guide Definitive Frequently Inaccurate
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? Douglas Adams
Rain Judge Nice Think Am Fish Wet Then Who Who Am I
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. Douglas Adams
You Live Rate Learn Any
I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas. Douglas Adams
Myself Natural Guitar Listening Incredibly Musical Musical Ideas Melody Prolific Musician Out Someone Simon Records Outpouring He Like Ideas Terribly Intelligent Just Taught Dylan McCartney Note Paul Paul Simon Working Who Play
We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever. Douglas Adams
World Whatever Think Back Our Solid Bits Out Eyeballs Table Vivid Objects Shape Colour Heads Like Hit Microphone Information Place Create Full Actually Tongues
There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit. Douglas Adams
Nature Me Nice Bit Fondly More Institution Like Piece Likes Up Maverick Accurately Against Little Little Bit Rebellious Imagine Rub
People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in. Douglas Adams
Me Book People Worth Digital Thought Own Think Enough Something Written Sort Another Just Want Wanted Interesting Media Right Thing
Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet. Douglas Adams
Good Meet Friendly Egalitarian Place Cyberspace
I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change. Douglas Adams
Me Change Money Bit Find Having Lifestyle Between Get Quite Quite A Bit Difference Bigger Bills
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. Douglas Adams
Mind Thought Rare Too Indeed Significant Fact Could Misleading Cry Render Obvious Non-Existent Revealing Very Hitherto Popular
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.' Douglas Adams
Saying Worth Nothing Down Worse Okay High Something Write Well Than Sitting Going Artistic Novel
I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity. Douglas Adams
Art Creativity Think Having Idea Since Doing Been Trying Graduate Literary Avoid English Ever
I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on the outside! Douglas Adams
Eyes Walk Seen Hell Assumed Everybody Kid Must Inside Something Only Outside Open Knew Sure Because His Going Anybody Anything Who Ever Actually Wide
The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body. Douglas Adams
Buy Drive Air Finding Physically Price Another Matches Go Method Want Little Body Use Your Your Body Usual Actually Thing
I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in. Douglas Adams
Worth Digital Own Think Enough Something Interesting Media Right
Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text. Douglas Adams
Great Game Guide Witty Doing Were Years Years Ago Years And Years Text Intelligent Did Literate Which Games Company Based
I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them. Douglas Adams
Work Art Good You People Job Think Tools Properly Writer Merely Most Knowing Practicing How Doing Get Craft Done Craftsmen Being Where Literate Interesting Fields Them Interesting Work Working Use Your Damage
Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web. Douglas Adams
You Trust Mistake People Internet Rubbish Complain Type Broadcasting Web Online New Read Because Understand Still Lot Dominated American Really Used Publishing Necessarily
Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. Douglas Adams
Politics You Trust Our Out Evolved Part Brain Very Quite Literally Social Working Who Large Large Part Why
I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting. Douglas Adams
Great You Wonderful Become Around Doing Get Fan Fiddling Interesting Used Syllables
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams
Work Deadline Deadlines Relatable
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