Bare Minimum Quote by Douglas Adams

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

“A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work - he must actually relish it.”

— Richard D. Altick

“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous…

— Russell Shorto

“The serious scientific public trusted him implicitly and consequently had no need to read him. If those people were to start getting critical, no…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“If he had ever tried anything, then he no doubt would have succeeded, paved a road that few could follow. But effort is the…

— Sarah Noffke

“He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had…

— Carl Sagan

“The whole political mess, the universal squalor, the essential pettiness of mankind oppressed him and he’d submerged himself in work and writing and books.”

— Laird Barron

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it…

— Douglas Adams

“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that…

— Eleanor Brown

“He was inefficient in the old sense of the word; not incapable, but unwilling to be seduced by work--unwilling to be singleminded. Those things…

— David Rhodes