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Freedom, Tradition, Prejudice, Strength, Metaphor
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“Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.” Douglas Adams
Technology, Computers, Innovation, Future, Ubiquitous Computing
Douglas Adams Technology, Computers, Innovation, Future, Ubiquitous Computing“I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.” Douglas Adams
Self-doubt, Confidence, Stubbornness, Belief, Personal Struggles
Douglas Adams Self-doubt, Confidence, Stubbornness, Belief, Personal Struggles“For all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.” Douglas Adams
Success, Boredom, Wealth, Blame, Perspective
Douglas Adams Success, Boredom, Wealth, Blame, Perspective“But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods.” Douglas Adams
Melancholy, Information Overload, Spirituality, Perception, Modernity
Douglas Adams Melancholy, Information Overload, Spirituality, Perception, Modernity“If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.” Douglas Adams
Faith, Proof, Existence, Religion, Philosophical Paradox
Douglas Adams Faith, Proof, Existence, Religion, Philosophical Paradox“I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.” Douglas Adams
Aspirations, Comedy, Career, Realization, Identity
Douglas Adams Aspirations, Comedy, Career, Realization, Identity“Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.” Douglas Adams
Reality, Fiction, Cynicism, Writing, Perspective
Douglas Adams Reality, Fiction, Cynicism, Writing, Perspective“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“I think the idea of art kills creativity.” Douglas Adams
Art, Creativity, Philosophy, Contradiction, Perspective
Douglas Adams Art, Creativity, Philosophy, Contradiction, Perspective“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“It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.” Douglas Adams
Creativity, Innovation, Hindsight, Genius, Human Nature
Douglas Adams Creativity, Innovation, Hindsight, Genius, Human Nature“Just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.” Douglas Adams
Wonder, Experience, Perspective, Drugs, Humor
Douglas Adams Wonder, Experience, Perspective, Drugs, Humor“Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?” Douglas Adams
Existentialism, Technology, Humor, Life Cycle, Consumerism
Douglas Adams Existentialism, Technology, Humor, Life Cycle, Consumerism“Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.” Douglas Adams
Time, Perspective, Physics, Causality, Non-linearity
Douglas Adams Time, Perspective, Physics, Causality, Non-linearity“What is this? Some sort of galactic hyperhearse?” Douglas Adams
Space Travel, Death, Humor, Description, Confusion
Douglas Adams Space Travel, Death, Humor, Description, Confusion“It is said that there is nothing surprising about the notion of, for instance, a person suddenly thinking about someone they haven't thought about for years, and then discovering the next day that the person has in fact just died.” Douglas Adams
Coincidence, Intuition, Death, Psychology, Interconnectedness
Douglas Adams Coincidence, Intuition, Death, Psychology, Interconnectedness“I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.” Douglas Adams
Money, Lifestyle, Perspective, Wealth, Irony
Douglas Adams Money, Lifestyle, Perspective, Wealth, Irony“Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” Douglas Adams
Age, Technology, Change, Humor, Perspective
Douglas Adams Age, Technology, Change, Humor, Perspective