Douglas Adams

Date of Birth:

11-Mar-1952

Nationality:

United Kingdom

Profession:

Writer

Douglas Adams grew up in England. After her parents divorced, her mother took her and her sister to live with her grandparents who owned a zoo. The experience of living there helped foster his love of animals. From the beginning, Douglas Adams has shown both creativity and skill and good writing. One of the highlights of Douglas Adams' career was when he was given a writing credit for a boat he worked with a member of Monty Python. She has also appeared briefly in several Monty Python skits. After his title helping Monty Python, Douglas Adams found great frustration in writing and blocking. To earn a living, he worked in a variety of jobs, including as a security guard. Douglas Adams married later in life and had one child, a daughter. He was an atheist for the rest of his life, referring to himself as an atheist, so no one would confuse him with being an atheist. He is also a great environmental activist and participated in a charity event where he had to climb a mountain in rhino to raise money for endangered species. While Douglas Adams was passionate about technology and was a big supporter of Macintosh products, he also campaigned for sustainable changes in the technology sector, such as making chargers globally reducing waste.

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Douglas Adams

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QUOTES BY Douglas Adams

Beauty doesn’t have to be about anything. What’s a vase about? What’s a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart’s Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?

“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”

“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?”

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

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

“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”