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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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" Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet. "
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Cyberspace
Friendly
" Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is. "
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" I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them. "
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Think
People
" I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. "
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Go
Always
" I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. "
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Year
Funny
Dead
" I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. "
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Gone
Up
" Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. "
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Ground
Yourself
" I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas. "
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Listening
Ideas
Guitar
" In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. "
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Miss
Fly
Ground
" Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark. "
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Better
Ocean
Time
" Life is wasted on the living. "
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Life
Wasted
Living
" The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. "
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Thought
Crossing
Even
" There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.' "
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Saying
Sitting
Worth
" My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees. "
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Tree
Information
Fall
" It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. "
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Mistake
Potatoes
Problems
" The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. "
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Repair
Wrong
Impossible
" 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, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body. "
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Air
Drive
Finding
" If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat. "
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First
Cat
You
" There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit. "
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Like
Nice
Nature
" I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it. "
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Someone
Remember
Writing
" I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is. "
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Half
Got
Things
" Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive. "
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Book
You
Place
" If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. "
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Bird
Looks
Small
" I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in. "
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Enough
Interesting
Media
" Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. "
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Experience
Human
Learn
" People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in. "
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People
Thought
Think
" Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with. "
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Win
Towel
Struggle
" For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. "
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Second
Nothing
Moment
" One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us.' "
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Important
You
Us