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He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight.


— Douglas Adams


#inspirational #life #science #inspirational

I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.


— Douglas Adams


#music

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.


— Douglas Adams


#consider #duck #family #hands #least

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.


— Douglas Adams


#dreamer #his #idiot #philosopher #speculative

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.


— Douglas Adams


#ground #how #learning #miss #throw

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.


— Douglas Adams


#always #end #go #i #need

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.


— Douglas Adams


#deadlines #fly #i #i love #like

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.


— Douglas Adams


#frequently #guide #inaccurate #reality

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.


— Douglas Adams


#conversation #different #difficulty #explained #had

Time is bunk.


— Douglas Adams


#time






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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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