01c. 1976 ADThe bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
02c. 1976 ADHe suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
03c. 1976 ADHe was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
04c. 1976 ADI love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
05c. 1976 ADEver since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
06c. 1976 ADSpace is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
07c. 1976 ADComputers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented we're still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
08c. 1976 ADWandering 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.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
09c. 1976 ADIf 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.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
11c. 1976 ADThe knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
13c. 1976 ADHuman 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 / quote ↗
15c. 1976 ADA common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
16c. 1976 ADOf course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
17c. 1976 ADBecause 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.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
18c. 1976 ADWorking out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
20c. 1976 ADWe 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.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
21c. 1976 ADTo give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
22c. 1976 ADTo 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.Douglas Adams / quote ↗
