If ever you’re having a tough day, you can always turn to the hilarity of Douglas Adams to brighten it up. The author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy and the Dirk Gently series had something to say about almost everything, and almost always with a twist of humour.
In May 2001, Adams gave a talk at the University of California, Santa Barbara, it would be his final appearance before his death at the young age of 49. His thoughts on the mystery of life certainly come with a comedic twist, but inspire some critical though as well:
“For us, there is no longer a fundamental mystery about Life. It is all the process of extraordinary eruptions of information, and it is information which gives us this fantastically rich, complex world in which we live; but at the same time that we’ve discovered that we are destroying it at a rate that has no precedent in history, unless you go back to the point when we are hit by an asteroid!”
If you’re looking for something a little more light hearted to change your perspective, you can always turn to The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time:
“He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.”
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