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Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams QUOTES

1 " long middle finger resembling a twig that it could use for probing for grubs. There is a telling example of convergent evolution when an unrelated species (the Long-Fingered Possum from Papua New Guinea) devised a similar strategy to address the same problem. (Douglas was very intrigued by the implications of convergence. What need is there to posit a designer if the operation of random forces, constrained by the reality of the world, produces the same elegant solution, as if there were no choice in the matter?) We monkeys have "

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2 " You can forget Proust and those stupid cakes. Beatles’ songs are more potent. "

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3 " Memories seem to be stored using a variety of mysterious principles, so that you have to circle around and around, through misty clouds of association, before you can relocate some missing piece. It is easy to persuade yourself of the truth of something for which the only evidence is a strong urge to believe. Douglas "

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4 " An assumption is something you don’t know you’re making.” DOUGLAS ADAMS "

― , Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams