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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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Beginning
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Us
" 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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Forget
" It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. "
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" To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. "
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Real
" 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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Human
Learn
" 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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" 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. "
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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 drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. "
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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
" 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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Looks
Small
" I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word 'freedom' means than I see much evidence of in America. "
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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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" 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 don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people 'over the Internet.' "
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Internet
People
" He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. "
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Dreams
Dreamer
" For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. "
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Second
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Moment
" We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. "
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Own
" I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. "
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Love
Sound
" You live and learn. At any rate, you live. "
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Rate
Live
" 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
" 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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Lifestyle
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" 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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" Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. 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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Brain
" 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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Got
Things
" I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? "
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Fish
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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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Believe
" Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner. "
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