English - Writer | March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001
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.
Douglas Adams
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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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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
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Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
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Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
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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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After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.
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Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.
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There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.
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I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people 'over the Internet.'
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