Douglas Noel Adams

Douglas Noel Adams

English writer, humorist, and dramatist. 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 in stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams’s contribution to UK radio is commemorated The Radio Academy’s Hall of Fame.

The proper lazyness

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

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