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  1. 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.

    #HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

  2. The current editor-in-chief, Stagyar-zil-Doggo, was a dangerously unbalanced man who took a homicidal view of contributing staff turning up in his office without pages of fresh, proofed copy, and had a battery of laser-guided guns linked to special scanning devices in the door frame to deter anybody who was merely bringing extremely good reasons why they hadn't written any. Thus was a high level of output maintained.

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  3. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.

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  4. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.

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  5. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.

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  6. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.

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  7. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.

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  8. It was for the sake of this day that he had first decided to run for the Presidency, a decision which had sent waves of astonishment throughout the Imperial Galaxy—Zaphod Beeblebrox? President? Not the Zaphod Beeblebrox? Not the President? Many had seen it as a clinching proof that the whole of known creation had finally gone bananas.

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  9. There was a terrible ghastly silence.
    There was a terrible ghastly noise.
    There was a terrible ghastly silence.

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  10. Do not listen to what anybody says to you at this point because they are unlikely to say anything helpful.

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  11. There was a terrible ghastly silence.
    There was a terrible ghastly noise.
    There was a terrible ghastly silence.

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  12. He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling around with some leaves a little way off.

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  13. 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

  14. 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.

    machina.mmalc.com/douglas-adam

    (Edit: set custom domain for URL)

    #NoctilucentClouds
    #DouglasAdams
    #AtmosphericPhysics
    #RocketLaunch
    #SFBayArea
    #Sonoma

  15. 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 #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

  16. The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication... the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we eat?" the second by the question "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question "Where shall we have lunch?"
    -- Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #DouglasAdams #Civilization

    #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos

  17. 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

  18. Was wir an AI-Bildern, -Texten und -Musik hören sind einfach nur Varianten von "42". Und ja, auch Viele von uns haben die Frage vergessen.

    #DouglasAdams #fortytwo #zweiundvierzig

  19. 📚🌲 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
    #douglasadams #dieletzenihrerart #aussterben

  20. 42 ist die Antwort auf die Frage nach dem Leben, dem Universum und allem. Geliefert hat sie der britische Schriftsteller Douglas Adams in seiner Geschichte "Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis". Am 11. März wäre Adams 72 Jahre alt geworden.

    #OnThisDay #DouglasAdams #Zweiundvierzig

  21. 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

    #Bookstodon #books #InspiredByAdamcr

  22. #Existential angst is navel gazing through a metaphysical microscope.

    As you grow, if you grow, you will find your now seemingly profound ramblings are not new nor particularly insightful except to you.

    Infants find their own toes to be fascinating for awhile, too.

    A list of #authors to pull self-absorbed angry young men out of the Slough of Despond:

    #Kafka
    #HarukiMurakami
    #JohnFowles
    #Dostoevsky
    #JohnNichols
    #JohnIrving
    #TomRobbins
    #DouglasAdams
    #NealStephenson
    #WilliamGibson
    #JDSalinger