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Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...


— Douglas Adams


#ford-anyone #humor #humor

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.


— Douglas Adams


#cope #i #normality #own #problem

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.


— Douglas Adams


#religion #business

Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.


— Douglas Adams


#humor

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.


— Douglas Adams


#psychology #psychology

What's up?" [asked Ford.] I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there.


— Douglas Adams


#humor

And so the Universe ended.


— Douglas Adams


#humor

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.


— Douglas Adams


#life

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first


— Douglas Adams


#humor

But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment." I've seen it. It's rubbish," said Zaphod,"nothing but a gnab gib." A what?" Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.


— Douglas Adams


#science #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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