In some ways, this is a critical election. A different paradigm of governing is emerging. We may be moving into this post-racial, post-ideological politics. I think it's much more a competency-based, performance-based politics.


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Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tel...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Computers don't kill books; people do.
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to ...
SCOTT DOUGLAS
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount ...
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
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For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”
“Yeah,” said the voice from...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Don't Panic.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you m...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet g...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Experience is the best teacher.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
DOUGLAS PAGELS
Reality is frequently inaccurate.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whethe...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest iron...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
I think we have different value systems." —Arthur
"Well mine's better." —Ford
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which ar...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple."

"Ah, well, I'm...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
After a fairly shaky start to the day, Arthur's mind was beginning to reassemble itself from the she...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
A cup of tea would restore my normality."

[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenpla...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
DOUGLAS ADAMS