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Works Quotes by Douglas Adams
- One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take…
- I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is…
- We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
- If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
- You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at…
- The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take…
- The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational…
- We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A…
More Works Quotes
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works… — Michele Bachmann