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NO ADMITTANCE.
NOT EVEN TO AUTHORISED PERSONNEL.
YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE.
GO AWAY.


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DOUGLAS ADAMS First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with AS...
DOUGLAS ADAMS We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those s...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Life? Don't talk to me about life!
DOUGLAS ADAMS The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss
DOUGLAS ADAMS Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
The second worst is that of the Az...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
DOUGLAS ADAMS In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lo...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a dou...
DOUGLAS ADAMS O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much......
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Answer to the Great Question Of.....Life, the Universe and Everything.....(is) Forty-two.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, though...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sen...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
DOUGLAS ADAMS In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
DOUGLAS ADAMS He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existenc...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
DOUGLAS ADAMS Even traveling despondently is better than arriving here.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' h...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics...
DOUGLAS ADAMS He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
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