What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Kate wondered for a moment how it was that eyes conveyed such an immense amount of information about their owners. They were,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“If," ["the management consultant"] said tersely, “we could for a moment move on to the subject of fiscal policy. . .” “Fiscal… — 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
“Well, sir, I think it's just as well that they are being phased out of the war effort, and that we are… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The nothingth of a second for which the hole existed reverberated backwards and forwards through time in a most improbable fashion. Somewhere… — 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
“Virtually everything we were told in Indonesia turned out not to be true, sometimes almost immediately. The only exception to this was… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“When the girl sitting at the next table looked away for a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Dirk Gently is the name under which I now trade. There are certain events in the past, I'm afraid, from which I… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you. Human beings,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“At that moment the dull sound of a rumbling crash from outside filtered through the low murmur of the pub, through the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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“No? How about now? Am I going backwards?' For once the bird was perfectly still and steady. 'No,' said Random. 'Well I… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“We already have the Wooden Pillar, the Steel Pillar and the Plastic Pillar. In a moment we will have the Golden Bail…'… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“For all my rational Western intellect and education, I was for the moment overwhelmed by a primitive sense of living in a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“during this century (the twentieth) we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment: cinema, radio, recorded music… — 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
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“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
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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
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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
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