Douglas Adams Quotations

Douglas Adams is best known for hist Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a series which began on radio and developed into a "trilogy" of five books.

Friends and fans of Adams knew he was also an environmental activist, lover of fast cars and a self-described "radical atheist". Adams was also an early adopter of all kinds of technology, using such inventions as e-mail before they became popularized.

Toward the end of his life, he was a sought-after lecturer on topics including technology and the environment. Since his death at the age of 49, he is still widely revered in science fiction and fantasy fandom circles. Here's a selection of the most popular Douglas Adams quotations from Quotiki.com.

• "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
  
  
• "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
  
  
• "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
  
  
• "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
  
  
• "You live and learn. At any rate, you live."