Douglas Adams Quotes
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979.
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".