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submitted 2 months ago byThatSportsGameGuy
260 points
2 months ago
Oh man, he's a personal hero of mine, early adopter of the internet, huge tech nerd, hilarious writer, genuinely good dude who didn't take life seriously.
I have a banner in my office with my favorite quote of his, "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." Cannot say my PMs love that one.
Would absolutely recommend reading his works.
12 points
2 months ago
And he wrote for Doctor Who, helped write lyrics for Pink Floyd- even coming up with the title for the 1994 album "The Division Bell" in exchange for a donation to his charity. Massive philanthropist and legend that we sadly lost way, way too soon.
4 points
2 months ago
Oh my God. I've always thought he died in his seventies or eighties. He was forty nine, we certainly did lose him far too early
3 points
2 months ago*
……What?
Edit: In a thread like this, you never know…. Is that a joke?
1 points
2 months ago
Not a joke. Tbh I didn't really know much about his life and I just assumed he'd lived a long while based on the stories I've heard about him
3 points
2 months ago
I still think about him dying so young and get sad every time I see his books on my bookshelf or mention him in conversation. So sad that I will never read another book that made me laugh so much about human nature.
2 points
2 months ago
I am glad that I asked, because I thought I was replying to a post in the Vonngut chain, not Adams. Vastly different ages at death. Seriously though, based on the many replies between the two, I really thought it could have been an “inside” joke 😅
Since it’s not a joke, I completely agree. I didn’t know who he was until after he died. 13-14ish. Kind of sad.
2 points
2 months ago
And wrote for Monty Python. He's one of two non-Pythons to get a writing credit for Flying Circus, and as Python tradition was for the writer of the sketch to appear in it someway, he does in a small role.
7 points
2 months ago
he really was a big advocate for procrastination.
hero.
18 points
2 months ago
You're missing the point of it. It's not procrastinating, it's living life on his time. We currently live in a world where everything needs to be done right now and that's toxic as all fuck, especially in a creative space.
9 points
2 months ago
it's not a bad thing. it's literally what you say here.
to quote Steve Meretzky, who collaborated with him on the video game: “he certainly raised procrastination to an art form”
2 points
2 months ago
This sounds familiar 🤣🍝🤣
1 points
2 months ago
He owned the first Macintosh in the UK. His good friend Stephen Fry owned the second one.
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