Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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“If you don’t open that exit hatch this moment I shall zap straight off to your major data banks and reprogram you… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Time blossomed, matter shrank away. The highest prime number coalesced quietly in a corner and hid itself away for ever.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“In the years since then, Richard had run into Dirk from time to time and had usually been greeted with that kind… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“You know,' he said, sitting back, reflectively, 'it's at times like this that you kind of wonder if it's worth worrying about… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There are limitless futures stretching out in every direction from this moment—and from this moment and from this. Billions of them, bifurcating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I have detected," he said, "disturbances in the wash." ... Arthur asked him to repeat what he had just said because he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“In the past the whales had been able to sing to each other across whole oceans, even from one ocean to another… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term “Future… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The man next to Ford grinned and nodded happily. Ford ignored him. He said, “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment." I've seen it. It's rubbish," said Zaphod,"nothing but a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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“There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“But that can't work, can it?" Said Richard. "If we do that, then this won't have happened. Don't we generate all sorts… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“So, like I said, these are a bunch of really sweet guys, but you wouldn't want to share a Galaxy with them,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Well, you look well on it.' 'I feel well. You look well.' 'I'm well. I'm very well.' 'Well, that's good.' 'Yes.' 'Good.'… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When the hunt for new sources of energy had at one point got particularly frantic, one bright young chap suddenly spotted that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
One nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical… — 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
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“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
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