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Douglas Adams


English
March 11, 1952
Writer
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.


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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.


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I think the idea of art kills creativity.


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This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.


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Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.


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I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.


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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.


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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.


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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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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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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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I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
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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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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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Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.
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I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.
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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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When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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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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