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Today is the 10th anniversary of the death of Douglas Adams, the brilliant author who was definitely ahead of his time. His best known work, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, originally a radio comedy in 1978 before becoming a "trilogy" of five books, is one of my all-time favorite works. A decade has passed, but his legacy lives on.
"All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place."
— Douglas Adams
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
"The major problem — one of the major problems, for there are several — one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
— Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency)
"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
— Douglas Adams (The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time)
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams (The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul)
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