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Douglas Adams
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Douglas Adams
Age: 49 †
Born: 1952
Born: March 11
Died: 2001
Died: May 11
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Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your th and th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.
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The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.
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I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.
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Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.
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What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!
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Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.
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And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.
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Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm.
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
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Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.
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I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style
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To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
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Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms.
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Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
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Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.
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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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Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain quickly speckled the windscreen. He turned on the wipers again, but they still refused to feel that the exercise was worthwhile, and scraped and squeaked in protest.
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
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