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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! "

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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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" I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. "

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" The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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 drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. "

" This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. "

" I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. "

" I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. "

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" When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty. "

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

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Always

" 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. "

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

" To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot. "

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

" As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing. "

" I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity. "

" 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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" After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. "

" Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. "

" 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. "

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

" Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication. "