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3. “Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.”
Douglas Adams
Internet, Technology, Metaphor, Science Fiction, Reality
4. “None of these facts, however strange or inexplicable, is as strange or inexplicable as the rules of the game of Brockian Ultra Cricket, as played in the higher dimensions. A full set of rules is so massively complicated that the only time they were all bound together in a single volume they underwent gravitational collapse and became a Black Hole.” Douglas Adams Absurdity, Complexity, Science Fiction, Games, Humor
8. “The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.” Douglas Adams Alcohol, Science Fiction, Humor, Exaggeration, Imagination
9. “I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good than what I do, there's no point in reading it, if it's better than what I do it makes me depressed.” Douglas Adams Science Fiction, Reading Habits, Self-comparison, Humor, Insecurity
12. “Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms.” Douglas Adams Alcohol, Humor, Science Fiction, Definition, Intoxication
19. “Through hyper-space, that unimaginable region that was neither space nor time, matter nor energy, something nor nothing, one could traverse the length of the Galaxy in the interval between two neighboring instants of time.” Isaac Asimov Space, Time, Science Fiction, Travel, Hyperspace, Imagination
21. “All that had been done in the mid-twentieth century on “calculating machines” had been upset by Robertson and his positronic brain-paths. The miles of relays and photocells had given way to the spongy globe of plantinumiridium about the size of a human brain. She.” Isaac Asimov Computers Innovation, Technological Progress, Science Fiction, Robots, Development, Future
25. “It’s just science fiction so it’s allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It’s just science fiction, so it doesn’t have to make sense. It’s just science fiction, so you must ask nothing more of it than loud noises and flashing lights.” Isaac Asimov Science Fiction, Humor Expectations, Imagination, Creativity, Entertainment, Judgment
27. “Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.” Isaac Asimov Science Fiction, Salvation Essence, Philosophy, Critics, Stories, Future
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3. “Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.”
Douglas Adams Internet, Technology, Metaphor, Science Fiction, Reality
4. “None of these facts, however strange or inexplicable, is as strange or inexplicable as the rules of the game of Brockian Ultra Cricket, as played in the higher dimensions. A full set of rules is so massively complicated that the only time they were all bound together in a single volume they underwent gravitational collapse and became a Black Hole.”
Douglas Adams Absurdity, Complexity, Science Fiction, Games, Humor
8. “The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.”
Douglas Adams Alcohol, Science Fiction, Humor, Exaggeration, Imagination
9. “I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good than what I do, there's no point in reading it, if it's better than what I do it makes me depressed.”
Douglas Adams Science Fiction, Reading Habits, Self-comparison, Humor, Insecurity
12. “Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of sugars and also notes its intoxicating effect on certain carbon-based life forms.”
Douglas Adams Alcohol, Humor, Science Fiction, Definition, Intoxication
19. “Through hyper-space, that unimaginable region that was neither space nor time, matter nor energy, something nor nothing, one could traverse the length of the Galaxy in the interval between two neighboring instants of time.”
Isaac Asimov Space, Time, Science Fiction, Travel, Hyperspace, Imagination
21. “All that had been done in the mid-twentieth century on “calculating machines” had been upset by Robertson and his positronic brain-paths. The miles of relays and photocells had given way to the spongy globe of plantinumiridium about the size of a human brain. She.”
Isaac Asimov Computers Innovation, Technological Progress, Science Fiction, Robots, Development, Future
25. “It’s just science fiction so it’s allowed to be silly, and childish, and stupid. It’s just science fiction, so it doesn’t have to make sense. It’s just science fiction, so you must ask nothing more of it than loud noises and flashing lights.”
Isaac Asimov Science Fiction, Humor Expectations, Imagination, Creativity, Entertainment, Judgment
27. “Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”
Isaac Asimov Science Fiction, Salvation Essence, Philosophy, Critics, Stories, Future
