Computers Quotes by Douglas Adams

“There was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Now concentrate!”

— Douglas Adams

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

— Douglas Adams

Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.

— Douglas Adams

The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

— Douglas Adams

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

“You have a time machine and you use it for... watching television?" "Well, I wouldn't use it at all if I could…

— Douglas Adams

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take…

— Douglas Adams

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the…

— Douglas Adams

A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was…

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“He sat and tapped his teeth with a pencil again and watched his sofa slowly revolving on the screen of his computer.”

— Douglas Adams

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the…

— Douglas Adams

I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd…

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What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces…

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Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to…

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“Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" "I checked it very…

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“The computers were index-linked to the Galactic stock-market prices, you see, so that we’d all be revived when everybody else had rebuilt…

— Douglas Adams

“Richard had trained in the Philippines, working to save the Philippines’ monkey-eating eagle, a wildly improbable-looking piece of flying hardware that you…

— Douglas Adams

The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to…

— Douglas Adams

“I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day…

— Douglas Adams

You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would…

— Douglas Adams

“Well, what we called a computer in 1977 was really a kind of electric abacus, but…” “Oh, now, don’t underestimate the abacus,”…

— Douglas Adams

“Listen, you machine,” he said, “you claim you can synthesize any drink in existence, so why do you keep giving me the…

— Douglas Adams

“You just let the machines get on with the adding up,” warned Majikthise, “and we’ll take care of the eternal verities, thank…

— Douglas Adams

We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we…

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“He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but…

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“For instance, a race of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings once built themselves a gigantic supercomputer called Deep Thought to calculate once and for…

— Douglas Adams

“O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us…"…

— Douglas Adams

“They consulted the computer. It said: “I regret I have been temporarily closed to all communication. Meanwhile, here is some light music.”…

— Douglas Adams

Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going…

— Douglas Adams

The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many,…

— Douglas Adams

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

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

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

“Proving nothing," said Ford. "I wouldn't trust that computer to speak my weight." "I can do that for you, sure," enthused the…

— Douglas Adams

“You see, Earthman, they really are particularly clever hyper-intelligent pandimensional beings. Your planet and people have formed the matrix of an organic…

— Douglas Adams

“The Googleplex Star Thinker is a super-computer from the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity and has the ability to calculate the…

— Douglas Adams