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One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job. Another problem with governing people is people.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash form point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all decide where the hell they wanted to be.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt
Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Speech...
She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Marvin from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity. I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Anything that happens, happens. Anthing that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Mostly Harmless
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Ford Prefect in "Life, the Universe, and Everything"

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