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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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Effort
End
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" 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. "
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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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Trying
" The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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Ideas
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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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Here
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" Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. "
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Ground
Yourself
" Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet. "
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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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Interesting
Media
" Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. "
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Made
President
" 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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Road
Long
" 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
Up
" I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them. "
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Think
People
" In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground. "
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Miss
Fly
Ground
" 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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Game
Company
Doing
" 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
" 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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People
Thought
Think
" I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. "
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Me
Still
Truth
" 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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Rare
Obvious
Thought
" 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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Always
You
Forget
" 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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Gardening
Beautiful
Believe
" 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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Universe
People
Beginning
" I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. "
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End
Go
Always
" 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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You
Service
Real
" The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. "
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Thought
Crossing
Even
" 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
Looks
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" 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. "
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Will
Disappear
" For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. "
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Second
Nothing
Moment
" I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. "
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Like
Love
Sound
" After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore. "
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Writing
Word