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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 non-working cat.”
— Douglas Adams
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“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.”
— Douglas Adams
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“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
— Douglas Adams
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“The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.”
— Douglas Adams
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“The only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.”
— Douglas Adams
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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
— Douglas Adams
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“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”
— Douglas Adams
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“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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“Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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“The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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“Life is wasted on the living.”
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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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“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
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“Time is bunk.”
— Douglas Adams
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