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" I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. "
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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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" 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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" I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. "
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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. "
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" It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. "
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" The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. "
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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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" The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. "
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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, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body. "
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" The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. "
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" Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use. "
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" Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us. "
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Fun
" He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. "
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Dreams
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" We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them. "
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Tall
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" 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
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Writing
" I think the idea of art kills creativity. "
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Art
Think
I Think
" 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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Thought
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" I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? "
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Judge
Who Am I
" We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever. "
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Create
Place
Think
" See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that. "
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You
Forget
" I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. "
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" Time is bunk. "
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Bunk
Time
" The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. "
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Trees
Conversation
Difficulty
" 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
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Small
" A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. "
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Trying
People
" Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text. "
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" Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "
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Trust
Social
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Media
" 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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Sitting
Worth