Douglas Adams

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1. 1952 age 0

   Born

2. 1983 age 31

   CreditThe Five Doctorsscreenwriter

3. 1992 age 40

   CreditShadascreenwriter

4. 1996 age 44

   CreditBreak the Science Barrier

5. 2001 age 49

   Died

6. 2005 age 49

   CreditThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyexecutive producer

   CreditThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyscreenwriter

• LWLalla Ward2 titles
• JNJohn Nathan-Turner2 titles
• PRPennant Roberts2 titles
• WDWarwick Davis1 title
• RGRichard Griffiths1 title
• ARAlan Rickman1 title
• ESElisabeth Sladen1 title
• JPJon Pertwee1 title
• TBTom Baker1 title
• WHWilliam Hartnell1 title

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• When you are a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train fare, all you can do is hope that someone will stop and pick you up. <br /> At the moment we can't afford to go to other planets. We don't have the ships to take us there. There may be other people out there (I don't have any opinions about Life Out There, I just don't know) but it's nice to think that one could, even here and now, be whisked away just by hitchhiking.

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• You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.

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• Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.

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• The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place, and continues to do so today.

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• I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

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• Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, "This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, may have been made to have me in it!" This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for. We all know that at some point in the future the Universe will come to an end and at some other point, considerably in advance from that but still not immediately pressing, the sun will explode. We feel there's plenty of time to worry about that, but on the other hand that's a very dangerous thing to say.

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