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"Don't give any money to the unicorns, it only encourages them."—Eric the Red
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"The chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied ... Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway."
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Sub-editors. Bastards. What about all that copy of his they'd cut? Fifteen years of research he'd filed from one planet alone and they'd cut it to two words. "Mostly harmless." The finger to them as well.
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"You stay there," said Ford, "and you'll soon be recaptured and have your conditional chip replaced. You want to stay happy, come now."
The robot let out a long heartfelt sigh of impassioned tristesse and sank reluctantly away from the ceiling. -
#DouglasAdams and Mark Carwardine's radio series "Last Chance to See" from 1989. Episode 1 already out. Ep2 on Monday, Ep 3 expected for #TowelDay - the 25th May.
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"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
"And are you?"
"No, that's where it all falls down, of course."
"Pity," said Arthur with sympathy. "It sounded like quite a good lifestyle otherwise." -
Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."
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It is said that his birth was marked by earthquakes, tidal waves, tornadoes, firestorms, the explosion of three neighbouring stars ... However, the only person by whom this is said is Beeblebrox himself, and there are several possible theories to explain this.
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else’s point of view without the proper training.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 15 (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/46078/
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Ah . . . ! What's happening? it thought.
Er, excuse me, who am I?
Hello?
Why am I here? What's my purpose in life?
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
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"Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal."
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"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm...
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"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be"
Don't Panic
"The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."25 years today, since we lost Douglas Adams
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25 anni dalla partenza verso altre dimensioni di #DouglasAdams. Ma sembrano 42. Guida Galattica Per Autostoppisti (ITA) - Video Dailymotion https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9l0zrk
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"We can charge the Unnecessarily Painful Slow Death torpedoes on the trip. Hyperspace static will give them a little extra sting."
Jeltz nodded approvingly. "You, Mown, are an utter bastard."
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Died this day: 05/11/2001 (b. 03/11/1952)
Douglas Adams. English author and satirist best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which began as a radio show. His blend of cosmic absurdity, philosophy, and technological wit remains a definitive cornerstone of modern science fiction.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams
#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
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The doors of the elevator slid open to reveal a large posse of security guards and robots poised waiting for it and brandishing filthy-looking weapons.
They ordered him out.
With a shrug he stepped forward. They all pushed rudely past him into the elevator, which took them down to continue their search for him on the lower levels.
This was fun, thought Ford ... . -
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
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"I do not hate myself. In many ways, I am not altogether too bed." – Constant Mown
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Douglas Adams hatte es ja im Buch: „Der lange dunkle Fünfuhrtee der Seele“ vorausgesagt und nun wurde er gebaut: Der elektrische Mönch! Ist grade auf der Tagesschau-Startseite.
Fanatisierte, religiöse KI-Roboter - was soll da schon schief gehen?
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 2, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, ch. 19 (1980)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/35143/
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