Douglas Adams Quote
The mice were furious.[...]Oh yes, said the old man mildly.Yes well so I expect were the dogs and cats and duckbilled platypuses, but...Ah, but they hadn't paid for it you see, had they?Look, said Arthur, would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?[...]Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built, and we've got to build another one.Only one word registered with Arthur.Mice? he said.Indeed Earthman.Look, sorry - are we talking about the little white furry things with the cheese fixation and women standing on tables screaming in early sixties sit coms?Slartibartfast coughed politely.[...] These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vast hyperintelligent pandimensional beings. The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front.The old man paused, and with a sympathetic frown continued.They've been experimenting on you, I'm afraid.
The mice were furious.[...]Oh yes, said the old man mildly.Yes well so I expect were the dogs and cats and duckbilled platypuses, but...Ah, but they hadn't paid for it you see, had they?Look, said Arthur, would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?[...]Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built, and we've got to build another one.Only one word registered with Arthur.Mice? he said.Indeed Earthman.Look, sorry - are we talking about the little white furry things with the cheese fixation and women standing on tables screaming in early sixties sit coms?Slartibartfast coughed politely.[...] These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vast hyperintelligent pandimensional beings. The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front.The old man paused, and with a sympathetic frown continued.They've been experimenting on you, I'm afraid.
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About Douglas Adams
Adams wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990) and Last Chance to See (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, including the unaired serial Shada, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its 17th season. He co-wrote the sketch "Patient Abuse" for the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Adams called himself a "radical atheist" and was an advocate for environmentalism and conservation. He was a lover of fast cars, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh.