Douglas Adams Quotes

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.'

Douglas Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001

Topics

PeopleThinkInternetFeelWorth

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

Joan Didion

WritingDownUnderstandWayMean

To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.

Steven Rattner

SuccessBusinessIndiaManufacturing

My grandfather influenced my brother, and my brother was my biggest influence.

Trombone Shorty

BrotherInfluenceGrandfatherBiggest

I think the stress will kill me. I think it will be the stress.

Travis Kalanick

StressMeThinkWillI Think

My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

Mary Roach

MedicalSearchInternetChainsBegin

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

Mike Love

MusicBeachThinkRockForceStones

For many years now, my source for salvific chicken soup has been the Sanamluang Cafe on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Kingsley Drive: crystalline broth, flecks of fried garlic, and a moist, steamed bird nesting on thick rice noodles and bean sprouts has stanched many a misery.

Michelle Huneven

BirdDriveSoupHollywoodChicken

There are a lot of folks who endorsed me that I would not want to see as president.

Mitt Romney

MeWantPresidentSeeWouldWho

For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.

Jason Calacanis

PeopleRestThinkAnythingMark

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

TimePoliticsYouPlaceRight Time

When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.

Diane Lane

AnimalChildYouYoungPointJust

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

Donovan

WorkLongSongwritingDesperation

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