There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.
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Love, Disillusionment, Relationships, Change, Perception
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“Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.” Douglas Adams
Humor, Tardiness, Perception, Attitude, Self-confidence
Douglas Adams Humor, Tardiness, Perception, Attitude, Self-confidence“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.” Douglas Adams
Happiness, Correctness, Priorities, Contentment, Personal Philosophy
Douglas Adams Happiness, Correctness, Priorities, Contentment, Personal Philosophy“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“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.” Douglas Adams
Laziness, Deception, Human Nature, Belief, Research
Douglas Adams Laziness, Deception, Human Nature, Belief, Research“There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'” Douglas Adams
Writing, Creativity, Artistic Pressure, Self-doubt, Humor
Douglas Adams Writing, Creativity, Artistic Pressure, Self-doubt, Humor“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” Douglas Adams
Design, Foolproofing, Human Nature, Humor, Underestimation
Douglas Adams Design, Foolproofing, Human Nature, Humor, Underestimation“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“Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.” Douglas Adams
Offense, Trends, Social Commentary, Humor, Criticism
Douglas Adams Offense, Trends, Social Commentary, Humor, Criticism“What is this? Some sort of galactic hyperhearse?” Douglas Adams
Space Travel, Death, Humor, Description, Confusion
Douglas Adams Space Travel, Death, Humor, Description, Confusion“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 think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word 'freedom' means than I see much evidence of in America.” Douglas Adams
Freedom, Culture, Europe, America, Perspective
Douglas Adams Freedom, Culture, Europe, America, Perspective“The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.” Douglas Adams
Technology, Criticism, Bill Gates, Irony, Business
Douglas Adams Technology, Criticism, Bill Gates, Irony, Business“The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.” Douglas Adams
Conversation, Absurdity, Trees, Humor, Isolation
Douglas Adams Conversation, Absurdity, Trees, Humor, Isolation“Cyberspace is – or can be – a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.” Douglas Adams
Internet, Community, Equality, Optimism, Social Interaction
Douglas Adams Internet, Community, Equality, Optimism, Social Interaction“How many roads must a man walk down?” Douglas Adams
Questions, Life Journey, Philosophy, Humor, Reference
Douglas Adams Questions, Life Journey, Philosophy, Humor, Reference“I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people 'over the Internet.'” Douglas Adams
Internet, Society, Technology, Perception, Media
Douglas Adams Internet, Society, Technology, Perception, Media“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
Douglas Adams Absurdity, Complexity, Science Fiction, Games, Humor“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.” Douglas Adams
Internet, Language, Humor, Irony, Technology
Douglas Adams Internet, Language, Humor, Irony, Technology