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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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So I have finished my 41st book of the year and have to pick what to read next: for me, this really is a no brainier! I have read and reread this book, although not necessarily this particular edition, at least once every year since the early to mid-1980s! The five books that make up The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (I know, I know) make up my absolute favourite book of all time!
#CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #H2G2 #DouglasAdams #42 #TowelDay
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So I have finished my 41st book of the year and have to pick what to read next: for me, this really is a no brainier! I have read and reread this book, although not necessarily this particular edition, at least once every year since the early to mid-1980s! The five books that make up The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (I know, I know) make up my absolute favourite book of all time!
#CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #H2G2 #DouglasAdams #42 #TowelDay
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So I have finished my 41st book of the year and have to pick what to read next: for me, this really is a no brainier! I have read and reread this book, although not necessarily this particular edition, at least once every year since the early to mid-1980s! The five books that make up The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (I know, I know) make up my absolute favourite book of all time!
#CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #H2G2 #DouglasAdams #42 #TowelDay
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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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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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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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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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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."
"Thanks, Dad," he said. -
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
#DouglasAdams @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction -
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
#DouglasAdams @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction -
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
#DouglasAdams @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction -
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 ... . -
Rocznice i urodziny:
»25 lat temu zmarł Douglas Adams«11 maja 2001 roku w wieku 49 lat zmarł brytyjski pisarz science-fiction, dziennikarz, a także scenarzysta słuchowisk radiowych i programów telewizyjnych Douglas Adams.
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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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If any of them had chosen to look out of the window at that moment, they would have been startled by the sight of Ford Prefect dropping past them to his certain death and flipping the finger at them.
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As you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.
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He was wrong to think he could now forget that the big, hard, oily, dirty, rainbow-hung Earth on which he lived was a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot lost in the unimaginable infinity of the Universe.
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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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Zaphod Beeblebrox: B – b – but who are you, man? Why do I want to see you? I was told you were on an intergalactic cruise, which [offhandedly] I can handle...but in your office, which I can’t.
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All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him and to water him.
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"Amazing-looking ship though. Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow."
Ford Prefect -
"Sorry, did I say something wrong?" said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed. Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life."
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"This Arthur Dent," comes the cry from the furthest reaches of the galaxy, and has even now been found inscribed on a mysterious deep space probe thought to originate from an alien galaxy at a distance too hideous to contemplate, "what is he, man or mouse? Is he interested in nothing more than tea and the wider issues of life? Has he no spirit? has he no passion? Does he not, to put it in a nutshell, fuck?"
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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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #therestaurantattheendoftheuniverse #aliens #existence #imagination #infinity #math #people #reality #solipsism #universe
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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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #therestaurantattheendoftheuniverse #aliens #existence #imagination #infinity #math #people #reality #solipsism #universe
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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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #therestaurantattheendoftheuniverse #aliens #existence #imagination #infinity #math #people #reality #solipsism #universe
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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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #therestaurantattheendoftheuniverse #aliens #existence #imagination #infinity #math #people #reality #solipsism #universe
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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/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #therestaurantattheendoftheuniverse #aliens #existence #imagination #infinity #math #people #reality #solipsism #universe
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Does it save you from the tedious business of believing things? #DouglasAdams
A robot monk and a puffin island: photos of the day – Wednesday https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2026/may/06/robot-monk-puffin-photos-of-the-day-wednesday?CMP=share_btn_url#img-10
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"We demand rigorously defined areas of doubt and uncertainty"
- Vroomfondel, of the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking Persons
#WhatCharactersAdvocateFor
#H2G2 #douglasadams
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"We demand rigorously defined areas of doubt and uncertainty"
- Vroomfondel, of the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking Persons
#WhatCharactersAdvocateFor
#H2G2 #douglasadams
#hashtaggames #noeffort -
"We demand rigorously defined areas of doubt and uncertainty"
- Vroomfondel, of the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking Persons
#WhatCharactersAdvocateFor
#H2G2 #douglasadams
#hashtaggames #noeffort -
"We demand rigorously defined areas of doubt and uncertainty"
- Vroomfondel, of the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking Persons
#WhatCharactersAdvocateFor
#H2G2 #douglasadams
#hashtaggames #noeffort -
"We demand rigorously defined areas of doubt and uncertainty"
- Vroomfondel, of the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking Persons
#WhatCharactersAdvocateFor
#H2G2 #douglasadams
#hashtaggames #noeffort
