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Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

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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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The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end.
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Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots
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He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.
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Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.
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How many roads must a man walk down?
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We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.
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Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.
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Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.
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Anything that happens, happens.
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