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A friendly Douglas Adams quote machine. Also on facebook at: https://xitter.cf/t.co/CHd9MFcp8f

Joined February 2014
"you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space" - #DouglasAdams
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"All opinions are not equal. Some are a great deal more robust, sophicated and logical than others." - #DouglasAdams
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"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen" - #DouglasAdams
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"The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't" - #DouglasAdams
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"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so" - #DouglasAdams
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"Time spent wrestling with tech that does not work yet is not worth it for most, however much fun it is for nerds like us." - #DouglasAdams
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"Human beings have the ability to learn from the experience of others, are remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - #DouglasAdams
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"I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote " - #DouglasAdams
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"I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit." - #DouglasAdams
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"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" - #DouglasAdams
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"The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one" - #DouglasAdams
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"I have rooms full of little dongly things … Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for." - #DouglasAdams
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"See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Or, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that." - #DouglasAdams
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"I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken." - #DouglasAdams
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"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind." - #DouglasAdams
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"his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it" - #DouglasAdams
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"I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be" - #DouglasAdams
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"I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it." - #DouglasAdams
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"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear" - #DouglasAdams
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