Douglas Adams Quotes — Page 29

Writer, Humorist

Funny

“Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.”

Fun Technology Wrestling

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Douglas Adams

Writer, Humorist

Funny

“It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.”

Animal Horse Ordinary

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Philosophical

“How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.”

Mind Past Differences

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Philosophical

“Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.”

Brother Time Sister

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Calm

“A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.”

Sea Mad Beach

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Philosophical

“We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.”

People Shadow Strange Places

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Funny

“I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.”

People Thinking Order

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Melancholic

“That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.”

Real Finals Seconds

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Wise

“[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three words, an inherently self-contradictory expression, and that any sentence which contained such a phrase would be thereby rendered meaningless and could not, consequently, be advanced as part of an argument in favour of any given programme-scheduling strategy.”

Men Philosophy College

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Melancholic

“When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.”

Writing Ideas Often Can

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Thoughtful

“People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the public's taste" and I think that's very wrongheaded. I like to believe the audience is actually intelligent, because it's made up of other people like yourself.”

Thinking Believe Intelligent

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Funny

“The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.”

May Top 10 Macintosh

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