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Books, Evolution, Metaphor, Survival, Adaptability
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“I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.” Douglas Adams
Purpose, Failure, Existentialism, Self-awareness, Artificial Intelligence
Douglas Adams Purpose, Failure, Existentialism, Self-awareness, Artificial Intelligence“So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone, Genghis Khan and Rupert Murdoch into the Isle of Wight – the locals wouldn't stand a chance.” Douglas Adams
Ecology, Invasion, Metaphor, Humor, Islands
Douglas Adams Ecology, Invasion, Metaphor, Humor, Islands“I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.” Douglas Adams
Crosswords, Wordplay, Language, Entertainment, Creativity
Douglas Adams Crosswords, Wordplay, Language, Entertainment, Creativity“Now. Having saved the entire human race from extinction I could do with a pizza. What say you to such a proposal?” Douglas Adams
Humor, Heroism, Mundanity, Contrast, Casual Tone
Douglas Adams Humor, Heroism, Mundanity, Contrast, Casual Tone“It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.” Douglas Adams
Humor, Danger, Physics, Perspective, Death
Douglas Adams Humor, Danger, Physics, Perspective, Death“A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.” Douglas Adams
Nerd, Technology, Humor, Definition, Communication
Douglas Adams Nerd, Technology, Humor, Definition, Communication“Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.” Douglas Adams
Nobility, Triviality, Perspective, Criticism, Language
Douglas Adams Nobility, Triviality, Perspective, Criticism, Language“There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.” Douglas Adams
Silence, Noise, Contrast, Repetition, Atmosphere
Douglas Adams Silence, Noise, Contrast, Repetition, Atmosphere“We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.” Douglas Adams
Perception, Reality, Senses, Cognition, Philosophy
Douglas Adams Perception, Reality, Senses, Cognition, Philosophy“If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.” Douglas Adams
Universe, Perspective, Life, Humor, Philosophy
Douglas Adams Universe, Perspective, Life, Humor, Philosophy“These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings.” Douglas Adams
Science Fiction, Mice, Humor, Dimensions, Intelligence
Douglas Adams Science Fiction, Mice, Humor, Dimensions, Intelligence“It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.” Douglas Adams
Humor, Security, Messiness, Deception, Travel Tips
Douglas Adams Humor, Security, Messiness, Deception, Travel Tips“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.” Douglas Adams
Identity, Humor, Self-perception, Problem-solving, Absurdity
Douglas Adams Identity, Humor, Self-perception, Problem-solving, Absurdity“The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.” Douglas Adams
Technology, Belief, Humor, Society, Automation
Douglas Adams Technology, Belief, Humor, Society, Automation“For the next two weeks I took up playing in the traffic, being careless with kitchen knives, and neglecting to stand clear of the doors on station platforms, but, sadly, I led a charmed life, and I had to go through with it: four weeks of the greatest humiliation and embarrassment known to man or, rather, to that most easily humiliated and embarrassed of all creatures, the overgrown twelve-year-old boy.” Douglas Adams
Adolescence, Embarrassment, Humor, Fate, Recklessness
Douglas Adams Adolescence, Embarrassment, Humor, Fate, Recklessness“Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.” Douglas Adams
Silence, Character, Contrast, Vocabulary, Speechlessness
Douglas Adams Silence, Character, Contrast, Vocabulary, Speechlessness“The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes.” Douglas Adams
Urban Life, Sensory Description, Atmosphere, City, Perception
Douglas Adams Urban Life, Sensory Description, Atmosphere, City, Perception“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?” Douglas Adams
Judgment, Perspective, Humor, Opinion, Self-deprecation
Douglas Adams Judgment, Perspective, Humor, Opinion, Self-deprecation