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

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Douglas Adams libro The Salmon of Doubt

Variante: I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Origine: 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

Origine: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Don't Panic.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Origine: 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.
Origine: 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 libro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Origine: 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 libro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Origine: 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 libro Praticamente innocuo

Origine: 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

Origine: 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 libro Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Origine: 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

Origine: 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

Origine: 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 libro The Salmon of Doubt

The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

“…he had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his "Zen" method of navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.”

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Douglas Adams La lunga oscura pausa caffè dell'anima

Origine: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 4

“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 La lunga oscura pausa caffè dell'anima

Origine: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 13
Contesto: 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 libro Ristorante al termine dell'Universo

Variante: In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Origine: 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

Origine: 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 libro Praticamente innocuo

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