Douglas AdamsOne of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.
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The phrase "one of the things (that) Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious" is a reference to Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this novel, Ford Prefect is a character, who is a journalist. He works for the Guide, an intergalactic newspaper. He travels through space in his time machine, with his friend Arthur Dent.
The two are trying to find Earth, after being stranded there for years due to an accident with their ship. This quote is used as part of the opening speech for this speech made by Ford Prefect.
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