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Probability, Normality, Humor, Space Travel, Uncertainty
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“For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two – and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was...” Douglas Adams
Computation, Meaning, Absurdity, Questions, Answers
Douglas Adams Computation, Meaning, Absurdity, Questions, Answers“I guess when the novel started, most early novels were just sort of pornography: Apparently, most media actually started as pornography and sort of grew from there. This is not a pornographic CD-ROM, I hasten to add.” Douglas Adams
Literature, History, Pornography, Media Evolution, Humor
Douglas Adams Literature, History, Pornography, Media Evolution, Humor“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” Douglas Adams
Service, Values, Sincerity, Integrity, Business Ethics
Douglas Adams Service, Values, Sincerity, Integrity, Business Ethics“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“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“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“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.” Douglas Adams
Religion, Skepticism, Intelligence, Belief, Curiosity
Douglas Adams Religion, Skepticism, Intelligence, Belief, Curiosity“If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.” Douglas Adams
Conversation, Thinking, Humor, Silence, Intelligence
Douglas Adams Conversation, Thinking, Humor, Silence, Intelligence“I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.” Douglas Adams
Digital Media, Creativity, Innovation, Technology, Originality
Douglas Adams Digital Media, Creativity, Innovation, Technology, Originality“You see what I have done?′ he asked the ceiling, which seemed to flinch slightly at being yanked so suddenly into the conversation.” Douglas Adams
Personification, Humor, Conversation, Inanimate Objects, Self-importance
Douglas Adams Personification, Humor, Conversation, Inanimate Objects, Self-importance“It seems to me that the whole field of humour could benefit from close and immediate scrutiny. Clearly we need to sort out the jokes which have any kind of genuine psychological value from those which merely encourage drug abuse and should be stopped.” Douglas Adams
Humor, Analysis, Psychology, Drug Abuse, Social Commentary
Douglas Adams Humor, Analysis, Psychology, Drug Abuse, Social Commentary“I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.” Douglas Adams
Skepticism, Stubbornness, Humor, Belief, Logic
Douglas Adams Skepticism, Stubbornness, Humor, Belief, Logic“Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.” Douglas Adams
Technology, Games, Writing, Adaptation, Nostalgia
Douglas Adams Technology, Games, Writing, Adaptation, Nostalgia“I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.” Douglas Adams
Self-knowledge, Mental State, Limitations, Self-awareness, Humor
Douglas Adams Self-knowledge, Mental State, Limitations, Self-awareness, Humor“The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally blind for five years, suddenly discovers that he had merely been wearing too large a hat.” Douglas Adams
Perception, Humor, Realization, Metaphor, Description
Douglas Adams Perception, Humor, Realization, Metaphor, Description“Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?” Douglas Adams
Beauty, Art, Meaning, Philosophy, Perspective
Douglas Adams Beauty, Art, Meaning, Philosophy, Perspective“The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up.” Douglas Adams
Party, Exaggeration, Time, Humor, Persistence
Douglas Adams Party, Exaggeration, Time, Humor, Persistence“Space is really big— REALLY big.” Douglas Adams
Space, Vastness, Understatement, Humor, Perspective
Douglas Adams Space, Vastness, Understatement, Humor, Perspective