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Mostly Harmless

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Adams, Douglas. Mostly Harmless. William Heinemann/Harmony Books, 1992, ch. 11.

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The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything...it's Forty-two.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Adams, Douglas. "Fit the Fourth." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Primary Phase. BBC Radio 4, London, England, UK, 29 Mar. 1978.

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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 31.

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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 16.

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A learning experience is one of those things that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”

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The Salmon of Doubt

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Adams, Douglas. "Interview: Douglas Adams." Interviewed by Brendan Buhler. Artsweek. University of California Santa Barbara Daily Nexus, 5 Apr. 2001.

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Adams, Douglas. The Salmon of Doubt. William Heinemann Ltd./Pocket Books, 2002, ch. 11.

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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Mostly Harmless

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Adams, Douglas. Mostly Harmless. William Heinemann/Harmony Books, 1992, ch. 12.

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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 1.

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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

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The Salmon of Doubt

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Adams, Douglas. Quoted in "Lament for Douglas Adams," by Richard Dawkins. The Guardian, 13 May 2001.

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Adams, Douglas. Quoted in The Salmon of Doubt, written by Richard Dawkins, edited by Peter Guzzardi. William Heinemann/Pocket Books, 2002, epilogue.

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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

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Mostly Harmless

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Adams, Douglas. Mostly Harmless. William Heinemann/Harmony Books, 1992, ch. 1.

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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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Adams, Douglas. "Fit the Fifth." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Primary Phase. BBC Radio 4, London, England, UK, 5 Apr. 1978.

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Adams, Douglas. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Pan Books, 1980, ch. 1.

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The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

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Adams, Douglas. "Fit the Fifth." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Primary Phase. BBC Radio 4, London, England, UK, 5 Apr. 1978.

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Adams, Douglas. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Pan Books, 1980, ch. 18.

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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."

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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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Adams, Douglas. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. William Heinemann, 1988, ch. 1.

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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Adams, Douglas. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. William Heinemann, 1988, ch. 13.

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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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Adams, Douglas. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Pan Books, 1980, introductory paragraph.

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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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Adams, Douglas. "Fit the Twelfth." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Secondary Phase. BBC Radio 4, London, England, UK, 25 Jan. 1980.

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Adams, Douglas. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Pan Books, 1980, ch. 28.

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It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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Adams, Douglas. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. William Heinemann Ltd./Pocket Books, 1987, ch. 2.

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For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

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Adams, Douglas. "Fit the Third." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Primary Phase. BBC Radio 4, London, England, UK, 22 Mar. 1978.

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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 23.

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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

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Adams, Douglas. "Little Dongly Things." The Salmon of Doubt. William Heinemann/Pocket Books, 2002.

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