Firsts Quotes by Douglas Adams

When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of…

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I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

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All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think,…

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My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is…

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See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget…

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Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.

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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is…

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The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The…

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First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and…

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The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of…

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One day old Thrashbarg said that Almighty Bob had declared that he, Thrashbarg, was to have first pick of the sandwiches. The…

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...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He…

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Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most…

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Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people…

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The idea that Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft) has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all…

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R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not…

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If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never…

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It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings,…

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In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the…

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The usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA , then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels…

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The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of…

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The story goes that I first had the idea for The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field…

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The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of…

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Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you,…

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When you're cruising down the road in the fast lane and you lazily sail past a few hard-driving cars and are feeling…

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But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like…

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Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the…

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If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David…

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