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1952–2001 England

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author and satirist, best known for his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy scripts and books.

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Also known as: Adams, Douglas, Douglas Noel Adams, Douglas Noël Adams, Douglas adams, Dirk Gently, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

You made us what you would not dare to be yourselves. Yet you will not acknowledge us.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

The kid was deliberately and maliciously watching television at him.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

Thor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

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

If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don’t.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

The Great Zaganza said: "You are very fat and stupid and persistently wear a ridiculous hat which you should be ashamed of."

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

AALST (n.) One who changes his name to be further to the front.

The Meaning of Liff (1983)

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

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

I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.

You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one.

The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

Dirk was unused to making such a minuscule impact on anybody.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires TV program (1996)

Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Douglas Adams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.