Tag: Douglas Adams
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing.
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I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.
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I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn’t anything going on on the outside!
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Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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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 of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.
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One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us.’
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People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of ‘Hitchhiker’s,’ and I thought, ‘No, no.’ I didn’t want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I’d already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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