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Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, humourist, and dramatist.

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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.

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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

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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.

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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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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

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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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