“Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.”

—  Douglas Adams , book The Salmon of Doubt

The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

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English writer and humorist 1952–2001

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