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Quotes from The Salmon of Doubt — Douglas Adams

1952–2001 England

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I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

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You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one.

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All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

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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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The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them.

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How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

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I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!)

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Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

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It's all rather complicated, but it makes a kind of sense if you think about it for a while.

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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

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"He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left."

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"Stotting" is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.

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"Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there."

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I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies

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There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right … Or put it another way, "The future of computer power is pure simplicity."

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"… Most of the words that airline staff used, or rather most of the sentences into which they were habitually arranged, had been worked so hard that they had died."

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Douglas Adams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.