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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies...
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others…
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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- 1991
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that…
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
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- 2002
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is…
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 drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
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I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer…
I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
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- 1991
