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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
He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his “Zen” method of navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Dirk Gently, No. 2, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch. 4 (1988)More info about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/78883/
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Le haghaidh Seachtain na Gaeilge, seo sliocht as "Dirk Gently agus a Ghníomhaireacht Bhleachtaireachta Iomlánaíoch", le Douglas Adams. Risteárd Mac Annraoi a d’aistrigh. Á léamh ag Orla (Microsoft Natural Voice).
2021
Leathanaigh 59, 60, 61
https://www.litriocht.com/táirge/dirk-gently-agus-a-ghniomhaireacht-bhleachtaireachta-iomlanaioch/#SeachtainNaGaeilge #SnaG23 #SnaG2023 #Gaeilge #MastoDaoine #DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency #DouglasAdams