Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered. — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“But Douglas was a genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, he could communicate the world he saw.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
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