English - Writer | March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas Adams
MomentNothingHappenHappenedAfter
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
ThinkYouForgetTestWillSee
Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.
GoodSurviveBookYouLookFind
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.
StartRealityInformationSeeing
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.
FreedomIdeasGrowing UpThinkSee
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
HandsYouTryFirstSeeCat
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
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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.
FreedomBalanceThinkBetterYou
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.'
InternetLearnYouImportantOutUs
We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.
TechnologyTimeThinkLegsTallOut
Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.
GoodCommitmentPeopleIdeasWriting
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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