For as long as he could remember, he'd suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.
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Self-awareness, Existence, Memory, Identity, Uncertainty
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“Gordon Way, brother of Susan, employer of Richard MacDuff, was a rich man, the founder and owner of WayForward Technologies II. WayForward Technologies itself had of course gone bust, for the usual reason, taking his entire first fortune with it.” Douglas Adams
Business, Technology, Failure, Wealth, Entrepreneurship
Douglas Adams Business, Technology, Failure, Wealth, Entrepreneurship“I don't go to mythical places with strange men.” Douglas Adams
Humor, Caution, Mythology, Gender, Boundaries
Douglas Adams Humor, Caution, Mythology, Gender, Boundaries“What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.” Douglas Adams
Happiness, Science, Priorities, Philosophy, Contentment
Douglas Adams Happiness, Science, Priorities, Philosophy, Contentment“The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.” Douglas Adams
Impossibility, Probability, Integrity, Philosophy, Perspective
Douglas Adams Impossibility, Probability, Integrity, Philosophy, Perspective“Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.” Douglas Adams
Time, Space, Being Lost, Humor, Perspective
Douglas Adams Time, Space, Being Lost, Humor, Perspective“Ah. Now there you're asking. The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis. Not only is the continuum like a human body, it is also very like a piece of badly put up wallpaper. Push down a bubble somewhere, another one pops up somewhere else. There are no more dodos because of my interference. In the end I imposed the rule on myself because I simply couldn't bear it any more. The only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself." He smiled bleakly and looked away.” Douglas Adams
Time Travel, Causality, Consequences, Regret, Complexity
Douglas Adams Time Travel, Causality, Consequences, Regret, Complexity“I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.” Douglas Adams
Atheism, Belief, God, Language, Logic
Douglas Adams Atheism, Belief, God, Language, Logic“The stories had claimed that people in the area had been "terrorized" by some repulsively deformed "goblinlike" creature who regularly broke out of the Woodshead and committed an impressively wide range of unspeakable acts.” Douglas Adams
Rumors, Monsters, Fear, Exaggeration, Storytelling
Douglas Adams Rumors, Monsters, Fear, Exaggeration, Storytelling“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“Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.” Douglas Adams
Virtual Reality, Perception, Death, Philosophy, Technology
Douglas Adams Virtual Reality, Perception, Death, Philosophy, Technology“Lots of people are not in the business you think they're in. Xerox, for instance, is in the business of selling toner cartridges. All that mucking about they do developing high-tech copying and printing machines is just creating a commodity market in toner cartridges, which is where their profit lies. Television companies are not in the business of delivering television programmes to their audience, they're in the business of delivering audiences to their advertisers.” Douglas Adams
Business, Perception, Profit, Marketing, Media
Douglas Adams Business, Perception, Profit, Marketing, Media“It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.” Douglas Adams
Perspective, Relationships, Observation, Indifference, Humor
Douglas Adams Perspective, Relationships, Observation, Indifference, Humor“Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.” Douglas Adams
Time, Blame, Success, Human Nature, Perspective
Douglas Adams Time, Blame, Success, Human Nature, Perspective“In the years since then, Richard had run into Dirk from time to time and had usually been greeted with that kind of guarded half smile that wants to know if you think it owes you money before it blossoms into one that hopes you will lend it some.” Douglas Adams
Relationships, Money, Facial Expressions, Humor, Social Interaction
Douglas Adams Relationships, Money, Facial Expressions, Humor, Social Interaction“A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't.” Douglas Adams
Technology, Simplicity, Comparison, Design, Usability
Douglas Adams Technology, Simplicity, Comparison, Design, Usability“Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.” Douglas Adams
Artificial Intelligence, Belief, Humor, Malfunction, Religion
Douglas Adams Artificial Intelligence, Belief, Humor, Malfunction, Religion“You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.” Douglas Adams
Wordplay, Humor, Music, Puns, Fish
Douglas Adams Wordplay, Humor, Music, Puns, Fish“The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.” Douglas Adams
Responsibility, Perspective, Nature, Metaphor, Collective Impact
Douglas Adams Responsibility, Perspective, Nature, Metaphor, Collective Impact