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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. -
"The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago," continued Marvin. ..."And that was with a coffee machine."
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Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed pronounce...
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Human 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 Adams⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DouglasAdams #Experience #HumanBeings #Learning
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Human 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 Adams⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DouglasAdams #Experience #HumanBeings #Learning
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Human 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 Adams⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DouglasAdams #Experience #HumanBeings #Learning
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Human 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 Adams⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DouglasAdams #Experience #HumanBeings #Learning
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Human 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 Adams⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DouglasAdams #Experience #HumanBeings #Learning
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Good. Ooooh, it's getting quite strong. And hey, what about this whistling roaring sound going past what I'm suddenly going to call my head? Perhaps I can call that . . . wind! Is that a good name? It'll do . . . perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I've found out what it's for.
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“This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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“Funny,” he intoned funereally, “how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.”
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Was zum Schmunzeln: Macht mal "curl --head ct.de" #heise #towelday #douglasadams
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[Zaphod] sat up sharply and started to pull clothes on. He decided that there must be someone in the Universe feeling more wretched, miserable and forsaken than himself, and he determined to set out and find him.
Halfway to the bridge it occurred to him that it might be Marvin, and he returned to bed. -
[Zaphod] sat up sharply and started to pull clothes on. He decided that there must be someone in the Universe feeling more wretched, miserable and forsaken than himself, and he determined to set out and find him.
Halfway to the bridge it occurred to him that it might be Marvin, and he returned to bed. -
[Zaphod] sat up sharply and started to pull clothes on. He decided that there must be someone in the Universe feeling more wretched, miserable and forsaken than himself, and he determined to set out and find him.
Halfway to the bridge it occurred to him that it might be Marvin, and he returned to bed. -
[Zaphod] sat up sharply and started to pull clothes on. He decided that there must be someone in the Universe feeling more wretched, miserable and forsaken than himself, and he determined to set out and find him.
Halfway to the bridge it occurred to him that it might be Marvin, and he returned to bed. -
[Zaphod] sat up sharply and started to pull clothes on. He decided that there must be someone in the Universe feeling more wretched, miserable and forsaken than himself, and he determined to set out and find him.
Halfway to the bridge it occurred to him that it might be Marvin, and he returned to bed. -
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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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn No. 526: 25924 Douglasadams.
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#douglasadams #asteroids #facts #comics #space #dontpanic #42 #strangebuttrue #funfacts #solongandthanksforallthefish #arthurdent #hhgttg #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
A quotation from Douglas Adams
You can’t help but try and follow an animal’s thought processes, and you can’t help, when faced with an animal like a three ton rhinoceros with nasal passages bigger than its brain, but fail.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Last Chance to See, ch. 3 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/30101/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #lastchancetosee #rhino #rhinoceros #animals #empathy #inscrutability #size #thinking #thought #thoughtprocess #understanding
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Noctilucent clouds form at 80 kilometres up — the edge of space. They're not supposed to be visible at 38°N in December. And yet they were. And they looked like a whale.
https://machina.mmalc.com/douglas-adamss-whale-was-a-cloud/
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#NoctilucentClouds
#DouglasAdams
#AtmosphericPhysics
#RocketLaunch
#SFBayArea
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Noctilucent clouds form at 80 kilometres up — the edge of space. They're not supposed to be visible at 38°N in December. And yet they were. And they looked like a whale.
https://machina.mmalc.com/douglas-adamss-whale-was-a-cloud/
(Edit: set custom domain for URL)
#NoctilucentClouds
#DouglasAdams
#AtmosphericPhysics
#RocketLaunch
#SFBayArea
#Sonoma -
Noctilucent clouds form at 80 kilometres up — the edge of space. They're not supposed to be visible at 38°N in December. And yet they were. And they looked like a whale.
https://machina.mmalc.com/douglas-adamss-whale-was-a-cloud/
(Edit: set custom domain for URL)
#NoctilucentClouds
#DouglasAdams
#AtmosphericPhysics
#RocketLaunch
#SFBayArea
#Sonoma -
Noctilucent clouds form at 80 kilometres up — the edge of space. They're not supposed to be visible at 38°N in December. And yet they were. And they looked like a whale.
https://machina.mmalc.com/douglas-adamss-whale-was-a-cloud/
(Edit: set custom domain for URL)
#NoctilucentClouds
#DouglasAdams
#AtmosphericPhysics
#RocketLaunch
#SFBayArea
#Sonoma -
Noctilucent clouds form at 80 kilometres up — the edge of space. They're not supposed to be visible at 38°N in December. And yet they were. And they looked like a whale.
https://machina.mmalc.com/douglas-adamss-whale-was-a-cloud/
(Edit: set custom domain for URL)
#NoctilucentClouds
#DouglasAdams
#AtmosphericPhysics
#RocketLaunch
#SFBayArea
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Wieso weiß ich, aber zwei von drei KI nichts von einem Regengott in einem Buch von #DouglasAdams?
So viele Bücher hat er doch nicht geschrieben.
Meinen Fresse! WOMIT WERDEN DIE TRAINIERT? -
Programas de rádio sobre a história da computação sendo preservados
#MundoRetro #Apple #BillAtkinson #BillGates #computao #DouglasAdams #histria #InternetArchive #JackTramiel #KevinSavetz #programa #rdio #recuperao
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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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #mostlyharmless #hitchhikersersgidetothegalaxy #disturbing #empathy #identity #perspective #pointofview #self #sympathy #unsettling
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"High Hopes" is a song by English #rock band #PinkFloyd, composed by guitarist #DavidGilmour with lyrics by Gilmour and #PollySamson. It is the closing track on their fourteenth studio album, #TheDivisionBell (1994); it was released as the second single from the album on 10 October 1994. An accompanying music video was made for the song and was directed by #StormThorgerson. #DouglasAdams, a friend of Gilmour.
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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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"High Hopes" is a song by English #rock band #PinkFloyd, composed by guitarist #DavidGilmour with lyrics by Gilmour and #PollySamson. It is the closing track on their fourteenth studio album, #TheDivisionBell (1994); it was released as the second single from the album on 10 October 1994. An accompanying music video was made for the song and was directed by #StormThorgerson. #DouglasAdams, a friend of Gilmour.
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"High Hopes" is a song by English #rock band #PinkFloyd, composed by guitarist #DavidGilmour with lyrics by Gilmour and #PollySamson. It is the closing track on their fourteenth studio album, #TheDivisionBell (1994); it was released as the second single from the album on 10 October 1994. An accompanying music video was made for the song and was directed by #StormThorgerson. #DouglasAdams, a friend of Gilmour.
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Siamo bloccati nella/dalla/con la/sotto la #tecnologia, quando invece vorremmo solo che qualcosa in nostra necessità, funzioni.
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Come riconoscere qualcosa che sia ancora solo tecnologia e non solo #marketing camuffato?
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Con #douglasadams ed il suo #salmone del dubbio: l'ultima volta in #autostop nella #galassia.
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#urania #elzevirista #booklovers #book #fantasy
