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"What did she say?"
"She hit me on the head with the rock again."
"I think I can confirm that that was my daughter."
"Sweet kid."
"You have to get to know her," said Arthur.
"She eases up, does she?"
"No," said Arthur, "but you get a better sense of when to duck." -
Think before you pluck. Irresponsible plucking costs lives.
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It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-ass.
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"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm...
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It's not every day a Galactic President gets dumped out of an air lock by his own head.
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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"So much time," it groaned, "oh so much time. And pain as well, so much of that, and so much time to suffer it in too. One or the other on its own I could probably manage. It's the two together that really get me down."
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2/117216490532873957
I used this quote on the acknowledgement page of my PhD dissertation, and I tampered with BibTeX so that the citation appeared at number 42. I thought it made it into the final copy, but apparently it didn’t.
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"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen..." and so on.
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"I leaped out of a high-rise office window."
This cheered Arthur up. "Oh!" he said. "Why don't you do it again?"
"I did."
"Hmmm," said Arthur, disappointed. "Obviously no good came of it." -
"You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
"Er, five," said the mattress.
"Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?"
The mattress was much impressed by this and realized that it was in the presence of a not unremarkable mind. -
A quotation from Douglas Adams
It’s easy to think that as a result of the extinction of the dodo, we are now sadder and wiser, but there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that we are merely sadder and better informed.
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Last Chance to See, ch. 6 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/30235/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #lastchancetosee #dodo #extinction #folly #information #regret #wisdom
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experiences of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Last Chance to See, ch. 4 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/1461/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #lastchancetosee #communication #education #ego #experience #humancondition #humannature #humanity #learning #pride #stubbornness #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
I’ve never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I’ve seen a few and they’re never as good as the photographs, which have the additional advantage of being things you can look at when you’re in the right frame of mind, which is usually around lunchtime.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Last Chance to See, ch. 4 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/30169/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #lastchancetosee #awaken #beauty #dawn #early #morning #nature #photography #sleep #sunrise #wakeup
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Had a good time trying out some Tengwar, lettering, and cursive with a new italic nib this evening. (Thanks @wiersdorf !)
#penmanship #caligraphy #tengwar #Tolkien #lemonysnicket #books #quotes #DouglasAdams #President #FountainPen #Lamy
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Ah, it's the #Glorious25thMay and #TowelDay to boot.
https://makertube.net/w/3wJUQJ9oHBgNRPo5XE5L6W
I hope you always know where your towel is and have a hard-boiled egg, reasonably priced love, and lilac nearby.
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
“Oh, all right,” said the old man. “Here’s a prayer for you. Got a pencil?”
“Yes,” said Arthur.
“It goes like this. Let’s see now: ‘Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.’ That’s it. It’s what you say silently inside yourself anyway, so you may as well have it out in the open.”
“Hmmmm,” said Arthur. “Well, thank you –”
“There’s another prayer that goes with it that’s very important,” continued the old man, “so you’d better jot this down, too.”
“Okay.”
“It goes, ‘Lord, lord, lord …’ It’s best to put that bit in, just in case. You can never be too sure. ‘Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen.’ And that’s it. Most of the trouble people get into in life comes form leaving out that last part.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 9 (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82307/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #mostlyharmless #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #consequences #ignorance #knowledge #prayer #protection #trouble #willfulignorance
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 5th” (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/35056/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #marvintheparanoidandroid #badtimes #complaint #depression #hyperbole #marchoftime #passageoftime #pessimism #waiting #worst
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Attributed in Richard Dawkins, “A Lament for Douglas Adams,” The Guardian (2001-05-13)More info about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/444/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #salmonofdoubt #deadline #delay #lateness #meme #procrastination #schedule #time #passageoftime #writersblock
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
The Salmon of Doubt, Part 2 “The Universe” (2002) [ed. Peter Guzzardi]More info about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/66399/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #age #aging #gettingold, growingold #henoed #innovation #naturalorder #normalcy #perspective #progress #technology #luddite
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Happy Towel Day and Glorious 25th of May to those who celebrate
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📚🌲 In unserem literarischen Adventskalender steckt heute ein Reisebericht zu bedrohten Tierarten der Welt. Douglas Adams reiste dafür nicht durch die Galaxis, sondern u. a. nach Neuseeland, Madagaskar, China.
#bundheidelberg #klimaschutz #naturschutz #adventskalender #bücher#somanybooks #wissensdurst
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Happy Geek Pride Day![1]
So don't forget your towel.[2]
Wear a lilac and do so with pride, to remember the people's glorious revolution![3]
And may the Force be with you, too![4]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Pride_Day
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_(world)#The_Glorious_Twenty-Fifth_of_May
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day#May_25
#GeekPrideDay #DouglasAdams #Towelday #Terrypratchett #Gloriousrevolution #StarWars #StarWarsDay
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The #NapsterGeneration, aged 15 to 35 (per #DouglasAdams) between 1999 and 2001 was born 1964 to 1986.
#Napster #cybergrunge #ChangeManagement #SystemsThinking #millennials #GenX #OKBoomers #SciFi #LivedReality #culture #WetWare
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Here is my #GetToKnowMe list for #7books. These items are my favorites because they were entertaining, I connected with them emotionally, and/or they helped me to better know myself.
— The Phantom Tollbooth #NortonJuster
— The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy #DouglasAdams
— The Gods of Jade And Shadow #SylviaMorenoGarcia
— Pattern Recognition #WilliamGibson
— Neverwhere #NeilGaiman
— Some Men Are Lookers #EthanMorden
— Bloom County Babylon #BerkeBreathed
