Tag: Douglas Adams
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I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
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We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‘crash’ when we tried to use them.
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
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