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411 Powerful Douglas Adams Quotes to Inspire You

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1. “The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many, many million times a second.”

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Computers, Intelligence, Speed, Human Nature, Technology

2. “It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.”

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Universe, Communication, Self-deprecation, Relationships, Humor

3. “The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.”

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Waiting, Anticipation, Silence, Disappointment, Expectation

4. “Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.”

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Laughter, Evil, Satisfaction, Character Development, Self-awareness

5. “Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this – partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.”

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Science, Parties, Humor, Jealousy, Professional Pride

6. “I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course – the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.”

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Internet, Technology, Prediction, Humor, Industry

7. “My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.”

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Animals, Humor, Ineptitude, Information, Nature

8. “The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.”

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Humor, Absurdity, Morals, Language, Inevitability

9. “It may not be terribly important that from five thousand miles away you can reach into a university corridor and drop a Coca-Cola can, but it's the first shot in the war of bringing to us a whole new way of communicating. So that, I think, is the fourth age of sand.”

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Technology, Communication, Progress, Perspective, Metaphor

10. “Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.”

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Paradox, Time, Space, Memory, Perception

11. “Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.”

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Ancestry, Humor, Human Nature, Family, Social Commentary

12. “Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”

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Time, Progress, Philosophy, Advice, Perspective

13. “Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.”

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Loneliness, Robots, Depression, Conversation, Humor

14. “Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.”

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Time, Blame, Success, Human Nature, Perspective

15. “The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.”

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Death, Finality, Description, Metaphor, Dramatic

16. “The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.”

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Internet, Language, Humor, Irony, Technology

17. “You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.”

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Science, Perception, Reputation, Humor, Wisdom

18. “All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.”

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Universe, Complexity, Perspective, Knowledge, Humor

19. “The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.”

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Humor, New York, Common Sense, Character, Statistics

20. “Who is this god person anyway?”

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Religion, Skepticism, Humor, Questioning, Perspective

21. “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

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Deadlines, Procrastination, Humor, Writing, Time Management

22. “But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving.”

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Nature, Resilience, Environment, Warning, Uncertainty

23. “In fact, he had always done the bare minimum of research necessary to support these myths. He was lazy, and essentially what he did was allow people's enthusiastic credulity to do the work for him.”

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Laziness, Deception, Human Nature, Belief, Research

24. “One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with.”

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Time Travel, Family, Humor, Paradox, Acceptance

25. “Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.”

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Communication, Awkwardness, Social Interaction, Difficulty, Timing

26. “A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.”

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Personification, Technology, Humor, Reason, Absurdity