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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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Douglas Adams
Age: 49 †
Born: 1952
Born: March 11
Died: 2001
Died: May 11
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Douglas Noel Adams
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Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
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Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.
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My capacity for happiness, he added, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
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I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!
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One is never alone with a rubber duck.
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'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'
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For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
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So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
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The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.
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I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.
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Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
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The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
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God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.
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When you walk through the storm, hold your head high And don't be afraid of the dark! At the end of the storm is a golden sky And the sweet song of the lark. Walk on through the wind Walk on through the rain Though your dreams be tossed & blown Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart And you'll never walk alone!
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In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.
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I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you're in the right frame of mind, which is usually around lunchtime.
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