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Douglas AdamsThe idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.
Douglas AdamsAll opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
Douglas AdamsA common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas AdamsFrom another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from the feeling of being a sheep startled by anything else it ever encountered, for they were creatures who learned very little on their journey through life, and would be startled to see the sun rising in the morning, and astonished by all the green stuff in the fields.
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