# Quote — Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

> Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 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. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

- Author: [Douglas Adams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams.md)
- Book: [The Salmon of Doubt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/the-salmon-of-doubt.md)
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