Category: Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams | dreams

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

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Douglas Adams | design

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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Douglas Adams The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts

Quote from Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts

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Post date October 19, 2022
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What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can’t move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn’t been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won’t be troubling you much longer.

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Douglas Adams The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Quote from Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

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Post date October 5, 2022
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The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

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Douglas Adams The Salmon of Doubt

Quote from Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

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Post date August 24, 2022
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There’s always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it’s with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it’s one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

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Quote from Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

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Post date July 27, 2022
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Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

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Douglas Adams

Quote from Douglas Adams

Can’t stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I’ll tell them what to do. Don’t get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)