"Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication."
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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Douglas Adams"He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot."
Douglas Adams"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."
Douglas Adams"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
Douglas Adams"I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons."
Douglas Adams"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
Douglas Adams"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
Douglas Adams"Life is wasted on the living."
Douglas Adams"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
Douglas Adams"We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them."
Douglas Adams"Time is bunk."
Douglas Adams"Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web."
Douglas Adams"Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. 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."
Douglas Adams"I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it."
Douglas Adams"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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