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Douglas Adams (1952-2001) was a British author, novelist, and humorist. He is most well known for his five-book "trilogy," The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


A computer nerd…uses a computer in order to use a computer.

Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression 'As pretty as an airport.'

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.