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Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

Believe, Paradox, Wells

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Family, Integrity, Patriotic

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

Children, Maturity, Order

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

Running, Years, People

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Inspirational, Happiness, Money

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

Space is big. Really 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, but that's just peanuts to space.

Funny, Believe, Mean

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, vol.1". Book by Douglas Adams, 2009.

What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.

Strong, Groups, Needs

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

Statistics, Assumption, Knows

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.95, Ballantine Books

WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.

Determination, Kitchen, Forget

"The Meaning of Liff". Book by Douglas Adams, John Lloyd, 1983.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

Life, Impossible, Logic

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Life, Positive, Travel

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

Atheist, Religion, Atheism

Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.104, Del Rey

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things

Order, Hitchhiking, Natural

Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Time, Philosophy, Humorous

Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots

Dreamer, Philosopher, Idiot

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

Advice, Quality, Life Decision

Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.67, Pan Macmillan

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

Life, Tired, Thinking

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.125, Pan Macmillan

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

Simple, Looks, Answers

Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.99, Del Rey

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

People, Political, Problem

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.349, Del Rey

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

Winning, Fjords, Psychology

Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.75, Pan Macmillan

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.

Views, Empathy, Training

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.710, Pan Macmillan

So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about, is whether or not the world we live in, will be capable of sustaining us in it. That’s what we need to think about.

Thinking, Needs, Looks

It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.

Trying, Rooms, Break

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?

Teacher, Stupid, Mean

"Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". Book by Douglas Adams, 1987.

How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?

Fun, Knows, Do You Know

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.81, Pan Macmillan

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