Douglas Adams Quotes
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, p. 9.
The mayor had resisted the rebuilding of a major downtown elevated highway when it was discovered that it was badly in need of repair. Typically, local officials accede to almost any pressure from AAA and the commercial interests wanting to see traffic flow maintained and improved. But a large proportion of the citizens preferred to have the downtown open to the waterfront and wanted the highway torn down despite the negative impact on vehicular traffic. Typically the traffic interests would prevail but Nickles refused to “pander” to the traffic interests.
He was the first mayor of New York City after the consolidation of the five boroughs into the City of Greater New York in 1898.
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. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame. Adams was known as an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, as a lover of fast cars, cameras, technological innovation and the Apple Macintosh, and as a "devout atheist".
