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Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, England on March 11, 1952.
* He attended St. John's College, Cambridge, where he studied English literature.
* After graduating, Adams worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC.
* In 1978, he created the radio comedy series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
* The series was a huge success and was adapted into a book, a television series, a stage play, a comic book, and a video game.
* Adams also wrote the novels Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
* He died of a heart attack on May 11, 2001, at the age of 49.
* Adams is considered one of the most important and influential science fiction writers of all time.
* His work is known for its humor, wit, and sharp social commentary.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

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Humor

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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Truth

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

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Humor

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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Humor

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

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Humor

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

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Humor

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

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Humor

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

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Life

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

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Life

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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Humor

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

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Humor

If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.

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Humor

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

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Humor

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

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Life

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

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Humor

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