“There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
Douglas Noël Adams (March 11, 1952, May 11, 2001). British author, comic radio dramatist, and amateur musician. He is known most notably as author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series.
Douglas Adams died of a heart attack at the age of 49 on Friday 11 May 2001, while working out at a private gym in California.