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In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.


Douglas Engelbart

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DOUGLAS COUPLAND I think we have different value systems." —Arthur
"Well mine's better." —Ford
DOUGLAS ADAMS The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which ar...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple."

"Ah, well, I'm...
DOUGLAS ADAMS After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the she...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what...
DOUGLAS ADAMS A cup of tea would restore my normality."

[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenpla...
DOUGLAS ADAMS There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
DOUGLAS ADAMS A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense fr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
KIRK DOUGLAS The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded prof...
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find...
NORMAN DOUGLAS A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
MICHAEL DOUGLAS You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
NORMAN DOUGLAS It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
DOUGLAS HURD I've never felt better.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
NORMAN DOUGLAS It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.
DOUGLAS MALLOCH When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have ...
DOUGLAS LURTAN The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing whe...
DOUGLAS EVERETT People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of thei...
NORMAN DOUGLAS How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
NORMAN DOUGLAS So, my argument is that as we become more and more scientifically literate, it
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