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This sentence contradicts itself -- no, actually it doesn't.
-- Douglas Hofstadter

This idea (of not noticing the identity of certain repetitive events) is interesting when we apply it to ourselves. Are there highly repetitive events which occur in our lives time and time again, and which we handle in the identical stupid way each time, because we don't have enough of an overview to perceive their sameness?
-- Douglas Hofstadter

Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.
-- Douglas Jerrold

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."
-- Norman Douglas

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

With a rubber duck, one's never alone.
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

When rats leave a sinking ship, where exactly do they think they're going?
-- Douglas Gauck

"The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks."
-- Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently)

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
-- Douglas Adams

"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'as pretty as an airport' exist."
-- Douglas Adams

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry."
-- Douglas Adams

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'
(Arthur experiencing the improbability drive at work)
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)