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- Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Speech...
- She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Marvin from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
- Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- 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. I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- Anything that happens, happens. Anthing that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Mostly Harmless
- My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Ford Prefect in "Life, the Universe, and Everything"
- Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- How can I tell that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensation and my state of mind?
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
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