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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
Douglas Noël Adams
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Imagine he said, never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.
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A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't
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The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.
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The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn't collapse when you beat your head against it.
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Yes it is,' said the Professor. 'Wait—' he motioned to Richard, who was about to go out again and investigate— 'let it be. It won't be long.' Richard stared in disbelief. 'You say there's a horse in your bathroom, and all you can do is stand there naming Beatles songs?' The Professor looked blankly at him.
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The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.
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Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there.
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Does God know he [exists]? Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered.
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The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.
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For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.
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We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
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Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.
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Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.
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I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.
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