Douglas Adams Deadlines Quotes

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I love deadlines,” he said once. “I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.”) He died in May 2001—too young. His

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

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

I love deadlines,” he has said. “I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." --Douglas Adams

(“I love deadlines,” he said once. “I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.”)

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly past.' Douglas Adams

I love deadlines,” he said once. “I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

the editors, having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back of a packet of breakfast cereal, hastily embroidering it with a few footnotes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly tortuous Galactic Copyright laws. It is interesting to note that a later and wilier editor sent the book backward in time through a temporal warp, and then successfully sued the breakfast cereal company for infringement of the same laws.

The simplistic style is partly explained by the fact that its editors, having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back of a packet of breakfast cereal, hastily embroidering it with a few foot notes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly torturous Galactic Copyright Laws. It’s interesting to note that a later and wilier editor sent the book backwards in time, through a temporal warp, and then successfully sued the breakfast cereal company for infringement of the same laws.

As with everything Douglas had done, the book was late. Apocryphal stories have grown up about Douglas Adams's almost superhuman ability to miss deadlines. Upon close inspection, they all appear to be true. The story about the first book is this: after he had been writing it for as long past the deadline as he could get away with, Pan Books telephoned Douglas and said, "How many pages have you done?" He told them. "How long have you got to go?" He told them. "Well," they said, making the best of a bad job, "Finish the page you are on, and we'll send a motorbike round to pick it up in half an hour.

Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing and explaining with an enthusiasm that was uniquely his own. Douglas’s ability to miss deadlines became legendary. (“I love deadlines,” he said once. “I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.”) He died in May 2001—too young. His death surprised us all, and left a huge, Douglas Adams–sized hole in the world. We had lost both the man (tall, affable, smiling gently at a world that baffled and delighted him) and the mind.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

Apocryphal stories have grown up about Douglas Adams’s almost superhuman ability to miss deadlines. Upon close inspection, they all appear to be true.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. —Douglas Adams