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September 22, 2025
Samantha Monty
Chair for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Würzburg

Quote 1

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Adams 1995)

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# Quote 1

> "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western
> spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at
> a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant
> little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly
> primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."

Caption: Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[@adams1995hitchhikers]

Quote 2

Images also work

assets/picard-facepalm.jpeg

Indistinguishable from a captioned image, of course. (Download)

Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

One more

“Perhaps I’m old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Adams 1995)

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# Quote 2 {.columns}

## Images also work {.left}

> ![](assets/picard-facepalm.jpeg){width="100%"}
>
> Indistinguishable from a captioned image, of course.
> ([Download](assets/picard-facepalm.jpeg){download=""})

Caption: Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

## One more {.right}

> "Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out
> what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to
> say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied."

Caption: Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[@adams1995hitchhikers]

Bibliography

Adams, Douglas. 1995. „The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy“.