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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Douglas Adams
    “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.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    tags: humor, scifi
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    Douglas Adams
    “A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: life
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    Douglas Adams
    “Don't Panic.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic
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    Douglas Adams
    “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: design, foolproof, ingenuity
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    Douglas Adams
    “He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: dreams
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    Douglas Adams
    “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    tags: philosophy
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    Mark Haddon
    “All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.”
    ― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    tags: honesty, stupidity
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    Mark Haddon
    “Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.”
    ― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time
    tags: statistics
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    Mark Haddon
    “He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.”
    ― Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother
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