Douglas Adams Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001
Birthday: March 11
Death: May 11
It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-ass.
source: Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.57, Pan Macmillan
topic: Smart, Science, Lynching, Smart Ass, Smartass
