Douglas Adams

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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For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then…

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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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After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a…

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As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they…

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And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that…

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“but there comes a point I’m afraid where you begin to suspect that if there’s any real truth, it’s that the entire…

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“After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the shell-shocked fragments the previous day…

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“The robot could no longer lift his head, had not read the message. They lifted his head, but he complained that his…

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“She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one…

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The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make…

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If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for…

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Conceited little mega-puppy.

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“I agree,” he said. “You have a horse in your bathroom, and I will, after all, have a little port.”

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“It was a little like a pikka bird, only rather smaller. That is to say, in fact it was larger, or to…

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“Kompjuter je samom sebi zbrinuto zaćeretao primijetivši da se jedna zračna komora otvorila i zatim zatvorila bez ikakve logike. To je bilo…

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“The first I knew about it was when a workman arrived at my home yesterday. I asked him if he'd come to…

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“I certainly don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don’t believe…

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How many roads must a man walk down?

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“Tips for aliens in New York: ‘Land anywhere, Central Park, anywhere. No one will care, or indeed even notice. ‘Surviving: Get a…

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“And are you not,” said Fook, leaning anxiously forward, “a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of…

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“I don’t know, apathetic bloody planet, I’ve no sympathy at all.”

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“Your wife,” said Arthur, looking around, “mentioned some toothpicks.” He said it with a hunted look, as if he was worried that…

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Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and…

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