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" I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. "

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" We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on the outside! "

" I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it. "

" I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it. "

" What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand. "

" The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. "

" 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. "

" Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet. "

" I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change. "

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" I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. "

" I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? "

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" Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web. "

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" I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in. "

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" The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. "

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