It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

—Douglas Adams

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About Douglas Adams

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Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter. He wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy, before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 14 million copies in...

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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 chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

—Douglas Adams

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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

—Douglas Adams

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

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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.

—Douglas Adams

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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

—Douglas Adams

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The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.

—Thomas Friedman

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The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation.… The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.

—John Cowper Powys

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