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“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams
Space, Scale, Perspective, Humor, Comparison
Douglas Adams Space, Scale, Perspective, Humor, Comparison“Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.” Douglas Adams
Time, Perspective, Physics, Causality, Non-linearity
Douglas Adams Time, Perspective, Physics, Causality, Non-linearity“One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with.” Douglas Adams
Time Travel, Family, Humor, Paradox, Acceptance
Douglas Adams Time Travel, Family, Humor, Paradox, Acceptance“I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.” Douglas Adams
Technology, Efficiency, Humor, Programming, Irony
Douglas Adams Technology, Efficiency, Humor, Programming, Irony“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“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.” Douglas Adams
Time, Progress, Philosophy, Advice, Perspective
Douglas Adams Time, Progress, Philosophy, Advice, Perspective“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.” Douglas Adams
Impossibility, Reality, Language, Perspective, Logic
Douglas Adams Impossibility, Reality, Language, Perspective, Logic“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“I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.” Douglas Adams
Understanding, Questions, Problems, Philosophy, Perspective
Douglas Adams Understanding, Questions, Problems, Philosophy, Perspective“People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.” Douglas Adams
Creativity, Technology, Adaptation, Innovation, Digital Media
Douglas Adams Creativity, Technology, Adaptation, Innovation, Digital Media“Between you and me, sir, I would've been just as happy to have had her amputated and kept the foot. I had a little spot reserved on the mantelpiece, but there we are, we have to take things as we find them.” Douglas Adams
Dark Humor, Acceptance, Morbidity, Disappointment, Adaptation
Douglas Adams Dark Humor, Acceptance, Morbidity, Disappointment, Adaptation“Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.” Douglas Adams
Technology, User Experience, Frustration, Nerd Culture, Practicality
Douglas Adams Technology, User Experience, Frustration, Nerd Culture, Practicality“The phone wavered in Richard's hand. He was holding it about half an inch away from his ear anyway because it seemed that somebody had dipped the earpiece in some chow mein recently, but that wasn't so bad. It was a public telephone so it was clearly an oversight that it was working at all.” Douglas Adams
Humor, Technology, Public Services, Description, Hygiene
Douglas Adams Humor, Technology, Public Services, Description, Hygiene“Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up.” Douglas Adams
Humor, Murder, Food, Timing, Human Nature
Douglas Adams Humor, Murder, Food, Timing, Human Nature“I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.” Douglas Adams
Depression, Communication, Emotions, Self-awareness, Robots
Douglas Adams Depression, Communication, Emotions, Self-awareness, Robots“Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity – distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.” Douglas Adams
Astronomy, Infinity, Perspective, Philosophy, Insignificance
Douglas Adams Astronomy, Infinity, Perspective, Philosophy, Insignificance“What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?” Douglas Adams
Humor, Religion, Travel, Absurdity, Modern Life
Douglas Adams Humor, Religion, Travel, Absurdity, Modern Life