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  1. Douglas Adams _ The Salmon of Doubt

    An international power supply is the device which means it doesn't matter what country you're in, or even if you know what country you're in {more of a problem than you might suspect} - you just plug your Mac in and it figures it out for itself. We call this principle Plug and Play. Or at least, Microsoft calls it that because it hasn't got it yet. In the Mac world we've had it for so long we didn't even think of giving it a name.
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  2. Douglas Adams _ The Salmon of Doubt

    I'm a writer and I'm feeling like death, as you would too if you'd just flown into Grand Rapids, Michigan at some ungodly hour of the morning only to discover that you can't get into your hotel room for another three hours. In fact it's enough just to have flown into Grand Rapids, Michigan. If you are a native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, then please assume that I am just kidding. Anyone else will surely realise that I am not.Having nowhere else to go, I am standing up, leaning against a mantelpiece. Well, a kind of mantelpiece. I don't know what it is, in fact. It's made of brass and some kind of plastic and was probably drawn in by the architect after a nasty night on the town. That reminds me of another favourite piece of information: there is a large kink in the trans-Siberian railway because when the Czar {I don't know which Czar it was because I am not in my study at home I'm leaning against something shamefully ugly in Michigan and there are no books} decreed that the trans-Siberian railway should be built, he drew a line on a map with a ruler. The ruler had a nick in it.
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  3. Douglas Adams _ The Salmon of Doubt

    Like, for instance, standing in the kitchen wondering what you went in there for. Everybody does it, but because there isn't-or wasn't-a word for it, everyone thinks it's something that only they do and that they are therefore more stupid than other people. It is reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking.
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  4. Douglas Adams _ The Salmon of Doubt

    And the most interesting natural structure?A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told.
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  5. Douglas Adams _ The Salmon of Doubt

    It's quicker, easier, and involves less licking
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  6. Douglas Adams _ The Salmon of Doubt

    There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.
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  7. Douglas Adams _ The Salmon of Doubt

    I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.
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  8. Douglas Adams _ The Salmon of Doubt

    You're paid a lot and you're not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don't want or need-for which you need more money.
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  9. Douglas Adams _ The Salmon of Doubt

    I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say "Meet under the clock tower," or "Meet under the War Memorial," but "Meet under Adams."
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  10. Douglas Adams _ The Salmon of Doubt

    I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.
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  11. Douglas Adams _ The Salmon of Doubt

    He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.
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  12. Douglas Adams _ The Salmon of Doubt

    The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them
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