Quotes: Douglas Adams
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Douglas Adams
+7I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
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+7To 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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+2A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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+1Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.
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+1Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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+1Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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+1Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
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+1We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
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+1You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
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0A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2012) 690 -
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0After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.
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0Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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0Don't believe anything you read on the net.
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0Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.
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0God's Final Message to His Creation:
'We apologize for the inconvenience.'
