Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 11. März 1952 |
Geburtsort | Cambridge |
Todesdatum | Freitag, 11. Mai 2001 |
Todesort | Montecito,_California |
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Beschreibung | Douglas Noël Adams (* 11. März 1952 in Cambridge, England; † 11. Mai 2001 in Santa Barbara, Kalifornien) war ein britischer Schriftsteller. Er wurde vor allem mit der satirischen Science-Fiction-Reihe Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis bekannt. |
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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.
Life is wasted on the living.
