Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams

"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
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"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”"
Douglas Adams Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
"“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”"
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
Douglas Adams The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot."
Douglas Adams
"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
Douglas Adams
"We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them."
Douglas Adams
"Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use."
Douglas Adams
"I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons."
Douglas Adams
"Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do."
Douglas Adams
"Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web."
Douglas Adams
"Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do."
Douglas Adams
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Douglas Adams
"I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it."
Douglas Adams
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
Douglas Adams
"Time is bunk."
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"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
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