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" It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it. "

" Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. "

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

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

" The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. "

" Life is wasted on the living. "

" I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Time is bunk. "

" There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. "

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