Quotes About Creativity

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.

What did "psychosassic" mean? It was his own word and he vigorously denied that it meant anything at all.

The sweat stood out cold on Ford Prefect's brow, and slid round the electrodes strapped to his temples. These were attached to a battery of electronic equipment—imagery intensifiers, rhythmic modulators, alliterative residulators and simile dumpers—all designed to heighten the experience of the poem and make sure that not a single nuance of the poet's thought was lost.

If it could not possibly be done, then obviously it had been done impossibly. The question was how?

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Totally mad," he said, "utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Arthur could almost imagine Paul McCartney sitting with his feet up by the fire one evening

Think of a number, any number." "Er, five," said the mattress. "Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?" The

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The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.

Ford,' he said, 'there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.

The impossible did not bother him unduly. If it could not possibly be done, then obviously it had been done impossibly.

They wrapped themselves in animal skins and furs which Ford Prefect acquired by a technique he once learned from a couple of ex-Pralite monks running a mind-surfing resort in the Hills of Hunian.

Long after his death his poems were found and wondered over. News of them spread like morning sunlight. For centuries they illuminated and watered the lives of many people whose lives might otherwise have been darker and dryer. Then

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.' Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The idea for the title first cropped up while I was lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1971. Not particularly drunk, just the sort of drunk you get when you have a couple of stiff Gössers after not having eaten for two days straight, on account of being a penniless hitchhiker. We are talking of a mild inability to stand up.

There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth.

I prigionieri erano legati alle sedie di Degustazione Poetica. I vogon non si facevano illusioni riguardo all'accoglienza che le loro opere ricevevano generalmente. All'inizio i loro tentativi di composizione poetica avevano fatto parte del generale tentativo minaccioso e violento di farsi accettare come razza normalmente evoluta e civile, ma adesso l'unica cosa che li induceva a insistere nelle loro creazioni era esclusivamente la loro crudeltà.

Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." ? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway.

But Douglas was a genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, he could communicate the world he saw. Also, once you'd seen it his way you could never go back.

The Jatravartids, who live in perpetual fear of the time they call The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief, are small blue creatures with more than fifty arms each, who are therefore unique in being the only race in history to have invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel.

For much of the time we were tramping through wet fields of sago, and a foolish but happy thought suddenly occurred to me. We were walking through the only known anagram of my name -- which is Sago Mud Salad.