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Douglas Adams Quotes - Page 15

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I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

Thinking, Order, People

"Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires" with Robert X. Cringely, www.pbs.org. 1996.

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.

Civilization, Space, Teeth

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.702, Del Rey

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow pizza.

Lying, Yellow, Hitchhiking

"Fictional character: The Book". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/ Episode #1.2", www.imdb.com. 1981.

When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

Writing, Ideas, Often Can

I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

Believe, Writing, Years

"The Salmon of Doubt". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.

Religion ... has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. What it means is, 'Here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not? Because you're just not. If someone votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like; everybody will have an argument but nobody feels aggrieved by it. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday', you say 'I respect that'.

Party, Moving, Heart

I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!

Heaven, Want, Headache

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.52, Pan Macmillan

Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.

Thinking, Islands, People

Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.

Life Is, Boxes

This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

Men, Flying, World

Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)

Atheist, Thinking, Hair

Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.103, Del Rey

Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

Three, Thirty, Counting

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.171, Pan Macmillan

It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" --she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should--"in a smelly old cave like this!

Taken, Opposites, Decision

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

Astonishment, Way, Next

Douglas Adams (2014). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.

Animal, Average, Years

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2013). “Last Chance To See”, p.275, Random House

Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila.

Wall, Taken, Ferrari

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

Space is unimaginably big.

Space, Bigs

We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.

Strange Places, People, Shadow

Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat.

Clear, Throat, Stillness

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.78, Pan Macmillan

I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say "Meet under the clock tower," or "Meet under the War Memorial," but "Meet under Adams.

War, School, Ideas

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

I didn't notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.

Glad

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.76, Ballantine Books

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

Eyebrows, Confusion, Littles

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

Stress, Giving, Tiny

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

Couple, Gin And Tonic, Week

Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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