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“I'm afraid,” he said at last, “that the Question and the Answer are mutually exclusive. Knowledge of one logically precludes knowledge of the other. It is impossible that both can ever be known about the same Universe.”
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"You, Mr. President, are the most philosophunculistic, moronic, steatopygic excuse for a politician that it has ever been my good fortune to not vote for, and if I thought for one second that this crappy Universe deserved any better, then I would pay, out of my own pocket you understand, to have you assassinated."—Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged
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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.
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"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre," Ford muttered to himself, "and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."
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(Arthur meets the three Lintillas)
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One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.
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"All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done."
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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."
"Thanks, Dad," he said. -
"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."
"Thanks, Dad," he said. -
"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."
"Thanks, Dad," he said. -
"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."
"Thanks, Dad," he said. -
"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."
"Thanks, Dad," he said. -
A quotation from Douglas Adams
Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone.
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Broadcast (2010-10-11), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future, ep. 2, “Publishing,” BBC Radio 4More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/6001/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #change #invention #media #progress #technology
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone.
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Broadcast (2010-10-11), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future, ep. 2, “Publishing,” BBC Radio 4More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/6001/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #change #invention #media #progress #technology
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone.
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Broadcast (2010-10-11), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future, ep. 2, “Publishing,” BBC Radio 4More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/6001/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #change #invention #media #progress #technology
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone.
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Broadcast (2010-10-11), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future, ep. 2, “Publishing,” BBC Radio 4More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/6001/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #change #invention #media #progress #technology
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
Generally, old media don’t die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven’t been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn’t want a TV screen on your headstone.
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Broadcast (2010-10-11), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future, ep. 2, “Publishing,” BBC Radio 4More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/6001/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #change #invention #media #progress #technology
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I usually give my cars names. I haven't done so with my current vehicle.
This morning I had a flash of inspiration for an ideal name, I'll call my car Prefect.
I have a Ford Grand Tourneo, so, it would be Ford Prefect.
Not only a former Ford model of car, also the character from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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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. -
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
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Happy Towel Day 2026, You Hoopy Froods!
Celebrating the amazing humorous sci-fi works by Douglas Adams! From our own "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" parodies to anime fanservice farces and steamy steampunk shenanigans, towels have been a common, uh, COSTUME in our Patchwork Productions!
#TowelDay #Towel #DouglasAdams #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #HGttG #Anime #AnimeCon
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Der Gender-Stern ist ASCII- und Unicode-Point 42. Genau wie die Antwort im Anhalter und genau wie der Asterisk in Shell-Prompts, steht der #GenderStern für "Alle" und "Alles".
Dies mag nun alles Zufall sein, aber mit diesem Wissen es fühlt sich trotzdem falsch an, wenn queerfeindliche Menschen #DouglasAdams "42" zitieren.
Danke.
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
-- Douglas Adams⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DouglasAdams #Integrity #Sincerity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
-- Douglas Adams -
#Introduction I'm Eclectic Lee, a middle-aged geek/nerd who's into #ComedyMusic (#WeirdAl, #TheFuMP), #ClassicVideoGames (#Atari), & #ComicBooks (#RomSpaceknight, #NewUniverse). I particularly like when those interests cross over (#PacManFever, #AtariForce). Minor interests include #DouglasAdams, #StarWars, #StarTrek, #DoctorWho & #TheatreOrgan. I hate politics, but will occasionally boost a political post, although I try to keep it positive. I've been on this Internet thing since the 1990s.