Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer, humorist, and dramatist. Adams is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a “trilogy” of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film.
Quotes of Douglas Adams :
1. To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
2. A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
3. It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
4. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
5. 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.
6. It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
7. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
8. The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
9. The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
10. It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
BY SHWETA TIWARI
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