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• The art of flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss. -- Douglas Adam
• The Guide says there is an art to flying,' said Ford,`or at least a knack.
  The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss....
• There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
  Pick a nice day and try it. The first part is easy....
• The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
  - Hitchhiker'...
• Even light, which travels so fast that it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.
  -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
• I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -- Douglas Adam
• It's all absolutely devastatingly true, except the bits that are lies. -- Douglas Adam
• Quote #504 I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
  -- Douglas Adams [found as the finger .sig of Phil Wadler]...
• What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue.
  Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far....