![]() The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (2005) |
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
Douglas AdamsIt can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "as pretty as an airport".
Douglas AdamsDon't Panic.
Douglas AdamsSo Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
Douglas AdamsKate's spirits sank to the very bottom of her being and began to prowl around there making a low growling noise.
Douglas AdamsHuman 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.
Douglas AdamsYou are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.
Douglas AdamsDriving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.
Douglas AdamsThe idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place, and continues to do so today.
Douglas AdamsI think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.
Douglas AdamsThere are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. 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, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions.
Douglas AdamsA learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."
Douglas AdamsThor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it.
Douglas AdamsI may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas AdamsThere was constant talk about hewing things and ravaging things and splitting things asunder. Lots of big talk of things being mighty, and of things being riven, and of things being in thrall to other things, but very little attention given, as I now realise, to the laundry.
Douglas AdamsIt'd be like a bunch of rivers, the Amazon and the Mississippi and the Congo asking how the Atlantic Ocean might affect them… and the answer is, of course, that they won't be rivers anymore, just currents in the ocean.
Douglas AdamsThe impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas AdamsIn the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas AdamsFor instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much, the wheel, New York, wars and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
Douglas AdamsTime is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas AdamsIsn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Douglas AdamsReg, as he insisted on being called, had a memory that he himself had once compared to the Queen Alexandra Birdwing Butterfly in that it was colorful, flitted prettily hither and thither, and was now, alas, almost completely extinct.
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