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“I love deadlines. I like the whoosing sound they make as they fly by.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Salmon of Doubt

Variante: I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Quelle: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Don't Panic.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Variante: So long and thanks for all the fish.
Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.”

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Douglas Adams buch Der elektrische Mönch

Quelle: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.”

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Douglas Adams buch Der elektrische Mönch

Quelle: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“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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Douglas Adams buch Mostly Harmless

Quelle: Mostly Harmless

“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”

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Douglas Adams buch Der elektrische Mönch

Quelle: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.”

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Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Quelle: Life, the Universe and Everything

“The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Salmon of Doubt

The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

“First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure.”

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“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”

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Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Quelle: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 13
Kontext: My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

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Douglas Adams buch The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Variante: In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Quelle: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

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Douglas Adams buch Mostly Harmless

Variante: Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Quelle: Mostly Harmless

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Quelle: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy