I've always preferred Dirk Gently to Hitchhiker's, likely because it speaks to me more personally as a programmer. > "What I mean is that if you really wan

I've always preferred Dirk Gently to Hitchhiker's, likely because it speaks to me more personally as a programmer. > "What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is > to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own > mind ... By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that > even a stupid machine can deal with, you've certainly learned something about > it yourself. The teacher usually learns more than the pupil. Isn't that true?" > "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere > on the table, "without undergoing a prefrontal lobotomy." Adams was clearly inspired by his time working on the computer game. All of his books have an autobiographical sense to them. Hitchhiker's and Restaurant had a lot of lying in muddy fields. The books written after he was published include more eating in fancy Greek bistros.