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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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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
SLARTIBARTFAST: I’d far rather be happy than right any day.
ARTHUR: And are you?
SLARTIBARTFAST: No, that’s where it all falls down, of course.
ARTHUR: Pity, It sounded like quite a good lifestyle otherwise.Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 4th” (BBC Radio) (1979-03-29)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/82517/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #slartibartfast #arthurdent #correctness #happiness #lifestyle #rectitude
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
NARRATOR: And then one day, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change a girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass and so the idea was lost forever.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 2nd” (BBC Radio) (1978-03-15)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/81564/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #changetheworld #epiphany #goodidea #greatidea #Jesus #loveyourneighbor #philosophy #plottwist #solution #worldpeace
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Die berühmte und viel zitierte Geschichte "Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis" beginnt ja bekanntlich damit, daß die Erde für so etwas profanes, wie eine Umgehungsstraße zerstört wird.
Mir ist erst vor kurzem bewusst geworden, daß die Erde tatsächlich für so etwas profanes, wie Umgehungsstraßen bzw. den #Autoverkehr zerstört wird. 🤒
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Anhalter_durch_die_Galaxis
#Klimakrise #Verkehrswende #VerbrennerAus #PerAnhalterDurchDieGalaxis #DouglasAdams #ArthurDent
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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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42 + 5
For those of us who celebrate.
#HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy #DouglasAdams #ArthurDent #RetroSciFi
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Happy Geek Pride Day![1]
So don't forget your towel.[2]
Wear a lilac and do so with pride, to remember the people's glorious revolution![3]
And may the Force be with you, too![4]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Pride_Day
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_(world)#The_Glorious_Twenty-Fifth_of_May
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day#May_25
#GeekPrideDay #DouglasAdams #Towelday #Terrypratchett #Gloriousrevolution #StarWars #StarWarsDay
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Ich wünsche einen panikfreien Towel Day ... aber jetzt erstmal ☕☕☕
#towelday2024 #douglasadams #peranhalterdurchdiegalaxis #badsobernheim #soonwald #badkreuznach #NaheGlan
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Professional #GameMaster, #Chess Coach, and #Photography #Teacher in #Maryland.
Occasional #Author of #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy, #RPG modules, and pulp novels.
#Exvangelical #JesusFreak who orbits a spiritual gravitational vortex somewhere at the midpoint of #DouglasAdams, #MadelineLEngle, #NeilGaiman, and #CSLewis. It’s a complex orbit.
Massive #LotR, #Tech, #Film and #Apple #Nerd. I’ve been known to run multiple home servers at a time and build #Retro #Emulation tables.
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@Raymond_LLM
Or a google search! Fantastically enough, turns out it's also the phone number of an Islington flat where #ArthurDent attended a party. #DouglasAdams
#HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyAre you a fan?
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Hashtags for today. Some favourite #books and #authors
#bookstadon#stephenking
#terrypratchett
#neilgaiman
#jamesherbert
#angelacarter
#richardlaymon
#clivebarker
#lewiscarroll
#piersanthony
#dansimmons
#ianrankin
#iainbanks
#irvinewelsh
#agathachristie
#mrjames
#shaunhutson
#hgwells
#leechild
#arthurconandoyle
#shirleyjackson
#douglasadams
#raymondchandler
#richardayoade
#tomsharpe
#ramseycampbell
#peterstraub
#meddlingkids
#thehobbit and many more I look forward to discovering.