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After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: After Anymore Even Hand Processing Ten Ten Years Word Writing Years

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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

Topics: Effort End Fun However Just Like Most Much Nerds Quite Spent Technologies Time Us Users Work Worth Wrestling

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Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.

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Topics: Actually Around Deposit Devices Different Doorway Every Fact Fiction In Fact Like Living Part Science Science Fiction Them Those Through Walk Wandering Web Which World You

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Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: Because Being Come Computer Computers Disappear Game Got How Interaction Invented Machines Out Recognise Still Technology Things Time Trying Use Work Work Out Works World Wrestling You

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Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

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Topics: Brain Evolved Large Large Part Literally Our Out Part Politics Quite Social Trust Very Who Why Working You

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I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: Between Bigger Bills Bit Change Difference Find Get Having Lifestyle Me Money Quite Quite A Bit

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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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Topics: Between Cannot Difference Get Go Goes Impossible Major Might Out Possibly Repair Thing Turns Wrong

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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

Topics: Another Book Digital Enough Interesting Just Me Media Own People Right Something Sort Thing Think Thought Want Wanted Worth Written I Think

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I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!

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Topics: Actually Anybody Anything Assumed Because Ever Everybody Eyes Going Hell His Inside Kid Knew Must Only Open Outside Seen Something Sure Walk Who Wide

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I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word 'freedom' means than I see much evidence of in America.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: America Awful Awful Lot Claims Competing Continent Crowded Cultures Developed Europe Evidence Freedom Growing Growing Up Ideas Like Lot Means More Much Notion See Sophisticated Systems Than Think Thought Up Word I Think I See

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 11th, 1952

Died: May 11th, 2001

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