# Quote — Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

> My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

- 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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> The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them.

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> There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right … Or put it another way, "The future of computer power is pure simplicity."

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> I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

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