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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.

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The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

Computer, Power, Pure, Simplicity

He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.

Annouced, Arm, Hair, Mad, Rabbits, Spread

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Fly, Ground, Miss, Missing, Order, Racist

The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning.

Dew, Fallen, Morning, Particularly

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.

Careers, Order, Ordinary, Probably, Set, Technology

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

Disappointment, Expectations, Fruit, Life, Sorrow

It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

Begin, Hate, Marvin, Shapes, Universe

Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire.

Difference, Differences, Fire, Maybe, People, Somebody

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.

Danny, Dunno, Jeff, Kind, Play, Roles

I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.

Heart, Home, Leg, Meg, Night, Stole

Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.

Fall, Guy, Guys, Hitchhiking, Wonder

Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.

Chicken, Indonesian, Islands, Life, People, Thinking

Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother.

Donalds, Found, Hamburger, Hamburgers, Mother

The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.

Astoundingly, Life, Long, Man, Men, Planets

What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i. e. , more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!

Assuming, Crosses, Knows, Stupidly, Wildly, Wrong

The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all).

Nicer, Phones, Rings, Six, Thing

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

Carcass, Center, Enough, Lonely, Long, Whales

The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem of when the drink is going to run out is, however, going to have to be faced one day. The planet over which they are floating is no longer the planet it was when they first started floating over it. It is in bad shape

Running, Party, Future, Bad, Floating

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

Capacity, Firsts, Fit, Matches, Taking

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Chronological, Happen, Happens, Order, Time

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