Douglas Adams Quotes


Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.


Citations

Adams, Douglas. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Heinemann, 1987, p. 82.

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Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
  • Born: March 11, 1952
  • Died: May 11, 2001
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Writer

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".