Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge sometime in 1952.
One fine night he was lying drunkenly in a field in europe carrying a borrowed copy of The Hitchiker's guide to Europe contemplating moving to a place that didn't spin quite so much and didn't hold conventions for the deaf dumb and blind when one is trying to ask for directions. He stared profoundly up at the stars and thought
"If somebody wrote a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, I'd be off like a flash."
Years later he made the first real attempt to write a science fiction comedy and give the infinite universe a sense of humour. It aired as a radio show on the BBC in several 'fits'. One of these was called the Christmas fit because it was aired on December 24th, which isn't Christmas.
The show created a great amount of nothing at all.
Sometime even later, somebody had the great idea to put the radio show into book form. Several deadlines and a great many baths later, Adams was told by the publisher
"Finish the page you're on and bring the bloody thing in."
This feat of publishing was called, surprisingly, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy and, even more surprisingly, did extremely well. So well, in fact, that it was followed closely by three more novels in the series; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life the Universe and Everything and So Long and Thanks For All The Fish. It was called a trilogy in four parts.
1)anything that happens, happensLife, The Universe, and Everything
2)anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen causes something else to happen
3)anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again happens again
it doesn't necessisarily do it in chronological order though
Time began seriously to pass and Adams expanded his horizions and worte about the interconnectedness of everything in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul. These books introduce amazingly deep themes such as an electric monk, a professer who is in excess of 400 years old, the gods of valhalla, penguins, exploding check-in desks, eagles, looming refrigerators, a cleaning lady, violent eagles, a broken nose, extremely violent eagles, cigerettes, a sofa stuck halfway up a flight of stairs, binoculars, being run over by a motercycle courrier and, last but not least, an electronic I CHING calculator with a blue button marked red.
After a lot of time and being locked in a hotel room by his publisher, Adams finished these books and unleashed them on the world.
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go flying past."Douglas Adams
In 1992, Adams returned to his original theme and wrote Mosty Harmless, the fifth book in the trilogy in four parts.
He was in the process of writing a book called Salmon of Doubt. Unfortunatly he is now quite dead.
Some memorable Douglas Adams material is below. It does not belong to me, nor to him as he is dead, the only person who may be pissy about it is the webmaster from whom i stole it. All i can say to him is, Don't take it personally.
"`Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.'
"`This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his
beer, `I never could get the hang of Thursdays.'"
"Pages one and two [of Zaphod's presidential speech] had been salvaged
by a Damogran Frond Crested Eagle and had already become incorporated
into an extraordinary new form of nest which the eagle had invented. It
was constructed largely of papier mache and it was virtually impossible
for a newly hatched baby eagle to break out of it. The Damogran Frond
Crested Eagle had heard of the notion of survival of the species but
wanted no truck with it."
"`How do you feel?' he asked him.
"`The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger
down his throat...'"
"`You'd better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It's
unpleasently like being drunk.'
"`You know,' said Arthur, `it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in
a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from
asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my
mother told me when I was young.'
"`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'"
"`I think you ought to know that I'm feeling very depressed.'"
"`If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it
caught and shot now.'"
"`In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were REAL
men, women were REAL women, and small furry creatures from Alpha
Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Aplha Centauri.'"
"`Hey this is terrific!' Zaphod said. `Someone down there is trying to
kill us!'
"And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very
fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word
like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name -
ground!
"Oh no, not again."
"`Er, hey Earthman...'
"There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of
the most popular are `Why are people born?' `Why do they die?' `Why do
they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?'"
"`Right,' said Ford, `I'm going to have a look.'
"`I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a
month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.'"
"`You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?'
"The fronting for the eighty-yard long marble-topped bar had been made
by stitching together nearly twenty thousand Antarean Mosaic Lizard
skins, despite the fact that the twenty thousand lizards concerned had
needed them to keep their insides in."
"`...and the Universe,' continued the waiter, determined not to be
deflected on his home stretch, `will explode later for your pleasure.'
"Zaphod grinned two manic grins, sauntered over to the bar and bought
most of it."
"`Maybe somebody here tipped off the Galactic Police,' said Trillian.
`Everybody saw you come in.'
"`Hand me the rap-rod, Plate Captain.'
"The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless
weaved his way through it."
"`The first ten million years were the worst,' said Marvin, `and the
second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I
didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.'"
"`Incidentally,' he said, `what does teleport mean?'
"I teleported home one night
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no
account be allowed to do the job."
"`We've got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to
it, what sort of image it has for them.'
"Another section inspired by American TV - this time `Starsky and
Hutch'. In this show the heroes claimed that they did care about people
getting shot, so they crashed their cars into them instead."
"He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and
hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair.
He spread his arms out wide.
`I will go mad!' he announced."
"`... then I decided that I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept
myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic.'
"`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.'
"Ford grabbed him by the lapels of his dressing gown and spoke to him as
slowly and distinctly and patiently as if he were somebody from a
telephone company accounts department."
"...[Arthur] leapt to his feet like an author hearing the phone ring..."
"Arthur's consciousness approached his body as from a great distance,
and reluctantly. It had had some bad times in there. Slowly, nervously,
it entered and settled down into its accustomed position.
"`A curse,' said Slartibartfast, `which will engulf the Galaxy in fire
and destruction, and possibly bring the Universe to a premature doom. I
mean it,' he added.
"`My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural
deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving
Universes.'"
"Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of THHGTTG. It had
some advice to offer on drunkenness.
"His eyes seemed to be popping out of his head. He wasn't certain if
this was because they were trying to see more clearly, or if they simply
wanted to leave at this point."
"Arthur yawed wildly as his skin tried to jump one way and his skeleton
the other, whilst his brain tried to work out which of his ears it most
wanted to crawl out of.
"`That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic
life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to
avoid meeting.'"
"Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he
realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there
wasn't an afterlife."
"`Credit?' he said. `Aaaargggh...'
"`...we might as well start with where your hand is now.'
"There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the
chronicler's mind."
"The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character
attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
....
"`What's been happening here?' he demanded.
"What the hell, he thought, you're only young once, and threw himself
out of the window. That would at least keep the element of surprise on
his side."
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing
that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly
go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or
repair."
"`You know they've reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company
directors?'
"`She hit me on the head with the rock again.'
"`Well,' said Reg, in a loudly confidential whisper, as if introducing
the subject of nipple-piercing in a nunnery..."
"He believed in a door. He must find that door. The door was the way
to... to...
"He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual
method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until
he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a
random direction."
"`Well, I hope you had a lousy evening.'
"Richard was loking at the bird as if it was the most extraordinary
thing he had ever seen in his life, and the bird was looking at Richard
as if defying him to find its beak even remotely funny."
"`If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to
consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family
anatidae on our hands.'"
"The beak was a major piece of armoury. It was a beak that would
frighten any animal on earth, even one that was already dead and in a
tin."
"Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died
of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a
Ferrari and a bottle of tequila."
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
"`...You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them
had you? I mean like actually telling anyone or anything.'
-- Arthur singing the praises of the local council planning department.
`But the plans were on display...'
`On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.'
`That's the display department.'
`With a torch.'
`Ah, well the lights had probably gone.'
`So had the stairs.'
`But look you found the notice didn't you?'
`Yes,' said Arthur, `yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a
locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the
door saying "Beware of The Leopard".'"
-- Ford convincing Arthur to drink three pints in ten minutes at
lunchtime.
`Very deep,' said Arthur, `you should send that in to the
"Reader's Digest". They've got a page for people like you.'"
-- Arthur, on what was to be his last Thursday on Earth.
-- An example of Damogran wildlife.
-- Arthur after his first ever teleport ride.
`Like a military academy,' said Arthur, `bits of me keep passing out.'"
....
`We're safe,' he said.
`Oh good,' said Arthur.
`We're in a small galley cabin,' said Ford, `in one of the spaceships
of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.'
`Ah,' said Arthur, `this is obviously some strange usage of the word
"safe" that I wasn't previously aware of.'
-- The Book, on one of the Vogon's social inadequacies.
-- Arthur getting ready for his first jump into hyperspace.
`What's so unpleasent about being drunk?'
`You ask a glass of water.'"
-- Arthur coping with certain death as best as he could.
`Why, what did she tell you?'
`I don't know, I didn't listen.'"
-- Arthur experiences the improbability drive at work.
-- Guess who.
"`Life, don't talk to me about life.'"
"`Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down
to the bridge. Call that "job satisfaction"? 'Cos I don't.'"
"`I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.'"
-- Zaphod.
-- The Book getting all nostalgic.
-- Zaphod and Arthur in a certain death situation over Magrathea.
`Terrific,' said Arthur.
`But don't you see what this means?'
`Yes. We are going to die.'
`Yes, but apart from that.'
`APART from that?'
`It means we must be on to something!'
`How soon can we get off it?'"
-- For the sperm whale, it wasn't.
I wonder if it will be friends with me?"
-- A bowl of petunias on it's way to certain death.
-- Arthur drawing the short straw on Magrathea.
`Arthur,' said Arthur.
`Yeah, could you just sort of keep this robot with you and guard this
end of the passageway. OK?'
`Guard?' said Arthur. `What from? You just said there's no one here.'
`Yeah, well, just for safety, OK?' said Zaphod.
`Whose? Yours or mine?'"
-- The Book.
-- Ford attempting to be heroic whilst being seiged by Shooty and
Bangbang.
He glanced round at the others.
`Is no one going to say, "No you can't possibly, let me go instead"?'
They all shook their heads.
`Oh well.'"
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
-- The Book just racapping what happened in the last book.
-- Zaphod being cool.
-- Zaphod and the Guide's receptionist.
`Yeah,' said Zaphod, `but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.'
`THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?'
`No, just A Zaphod Bebblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?'
`But sir,' it squealed, `I just heard on the sub-ether radio report. It
said you were dead...'
`Yeah, that's right, I just haven't stopped moving yet.'"
-- The Book decribing Milliways' politically incorrect decor.
-- Ford in paradise.
Ford's head swivelled slowly towards him. He spoke with feeling.
`Wow,' he said, `What sort of drinks do you serve in this place?'
The waiter laughed a polite little waiter's laugh.
`Ah,' he said, `I think sir has perhaps misunderstood me.'
`Oh, I hope not,' breathed Ford."
-- Zaphod in paradise.
-- Zaphod getting paranoid over a phone call.
`You mean they want to arrest me over the phone?' said Zaphod, `Could
be. I'm a pretty dangerous dude when I'm cornered.'
`Yeah,' said a voice from under the table [Ford's now completely rat-
arsed at this point], `you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the
shrapnel.'"
-- Zaphod discovers that waiters are the least hip people in the
Universe.
The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.
`I beg your pardon, sir?' he said.
`The phone, waiter,' said Zaphod, grabbing it off him. `Shee, you guys
are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.'"
-- Ford making his way out of Milliways whilst under the influence of
enough alchol to make a rhino sing.
-- Marvin reflecting back on his 576,000,003,579 year career as
Milliways' car park attendent.
-- Arthur finding an escape route from a certain death situation.
Another moment passed.
Slowly, the others turned to face him.
`Probably the wrong moment to ask,' said Arthur, `It's just I remember
you use the word a short while ago and I only bring it up because...'
`Where,' said Ford quietly, `does it say teleport?'
`Well, just over here in fact,' said Arthur, pointing at a dark
control box in the rear of the cabin, `Just under the word "emergency",
above the word "system" and beside the sign saying "out of order".'"
-- A poem about matter transference beams.
With Ron and Sid and Meg.
Ron stole Meggie's heart away
And I got Sidney's leg."
-- Some wisdom from The Book.
-- Ford "debating" what to do with fire with a marketing girl.
The crowd were tense. They were expecting something wonderful from
Ford.
`Stick it up your nose,' he said.
`Which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know,' insisted the
girl, `Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?'"
Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
"The story goes that I first had the idea for THHGTTG while lying drunk
in a field in Innsbruck (or `Spain' as the BBC TV publicity department
authorititively has it, probably because it's easier to spell)."
-- Foreward by DNA.
-- Fit the First.
FORD Six pints of bitter. And quickly please, the world's about to
end.
BARMAN Oh yes, sir? Nice weather for it.
-- Fit the Third.
BOOK Meanwhile, the starship has landed on the surface of Magrathea
and Trillian is about to make one of the most important
statements of her life. Its importance is not immediately
recognised by her companions.
TRILL. Hey, my white mice have escaped.
ZAPHOD Nuts to your white mice.
-- Fit the Third.
BOOK ...Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than
dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York,
wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck
about in the water having a good time. But conversely the
dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for
precisely the same reasons.
-- DNA on the origins of Shooty and Bang Bang in Fit the Fourth.
-- Cut dialogue from Fit the Fifth.
ARTHUR What is an Algolian Zylatburger anyway?
FORD They're a kind of meatburger made from the most unpleasant parts
of a creature well known for its total lack of any pleasant
parts.
ARTHUR So you mean that the Universe does actually end not with a bang
but with a Wimpy?
-- Introduction to Fit the Seventh.
BOOK There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers
exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will
instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more
bizarrely inexeplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-- Ford and Arthur in a tricky situation, Fit the Eighth.
FORD Tell me Arthur...
ARTHUR Yes?
FORD This boulder we're stuck under, how big would you say it was? Roughly?
ARTHUR Oh, about the size of Coventry Cathedral.
FORD Do you think we could move it? (Arthur doesn't reply) Just asking.
-- Comforting advice for Ford and Arthur in this current situation, Fit
the Eighth.
BOOK 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. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so
far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely,
consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much
longer.
-- Zaphod and Ford trying to get a grip on things in Brontitall, Fit
the Tenth.
ZAPHOD Hey, this rock...
FORD Marble...
ZAPHOD Marble...
FORD Ice-covered marble...
ZAPHOD Right... it's as slippery as... as... What's the slipperiest
thing you can think of?
FORD At the moment? This marble.
ZAPHOD Right. This marble is as slippery as this marble.
-- Arthur pointing out one of the disadvantages of gravity, Fit the Tenth.
ARTHUR It's not a question of whose habitat it is, it's a question of
how hard you hit it.
-- Arthur and the Lintillas gaining the upper hand, Fit the Twelfth.
ARTHUR It probably seems a terrible thing to say, but you know what I
sometimes think would be useful in these situations?
LINT. What?
ARTHUR A gun of some sort.
LINT.2 Will this help?
ARTHUR What is it?
LINT.2 A gun of some sort.
ARTHUR Oh, that'll help. Can you make it fire?
LINT. Er...
F/X DEAFENING ROAR
LINT. Yes.
-- Arthur discovering a way of coping with life on Prehistoric Earth.
Life, the Universe and Everything
-- Ford updating Arthur about what he's been doing for the past four
years.
Arthur cleared his throat, and then did it again.
`Where,' he said, `did you...?'
`Find a gin and tonic?' said Ford brightly. `I found a small lake that
thought it was a gin and tonic, and jumped in and out of that. At least,
I think it thought it was a gin and tonic.'
`I may,' he addded with a grin which would have sent sane men
scampering into the trees, `have been imagining it.'"
-- Arthur failing in his first lesson of galactic physics in four years.
`Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'"
-- Ford trying to rectify that situation.
-- Who says that the character of Arthur isn't autobiographical?
-- Arthur coping with his return to Earth as best as he could.
Arthur sat up.
`Where am I?' he said.
`Lord's Cricket Ground,' said Ford.
`Fine,' said Arthur, and his consciousness stepped out again for a
quick breather. His body flopped back on the grass."
-- Ford ensuring everyone knew where his priorities lay.
`Sounds like a bad time,' said Ford, `with luck I'll be drunk enough
not to notice.'"
-- Ford's last ditch attempt to get out of helping Slartibartfast.
-- One of the more preferable pieces of advice contained in the Guide.
`Go to it,' it said, `and good luck.'
It was cross-referenced to the entry concerning the size of the
Universe and ways of coping with that."
-- Arthur trying to see who had diverted him from going to a party.
-- Arthur discovering who had diverted him from going to a party.
`Bet you weren't expecting to see me again,' said the monster, which
Arthur couldn't help thinking was a strange remark for it to make,
seeing as he had never met the creature before. He could tell that he
hadn't met the creature before from the simple fact that he was able to
sleep at nights."
-- Marvin's first ever compliment about anybody.
-- Arthur realising that he's in a certain death situation with a
supernova bomb that is shaped like a cricket ball.
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
-- Ford in a spot of bother.
These two words are usually coupled together in the Old Pink Dog Bar."
-- Arthur trying to discover which part of Fenchurch is wrong.
Arthur said, `So which way do I go?'
`Down,' said Fenchurch, `on this occaision.'
He moved his hand.
`Down,' she said, `is in fact the other way.'
`Oh yes.'"
-- This line perhaps best sums up the whole book.
Mostly Harmless
-- Nuff said??
When it's fall in New York, the air smells as if someone's been frying
goats in it, and if you are keen to breathe the best plan is to open a
window and stick your head in a building."
-- Ford and Colin the robot.
`Oh just the nicest things, sir, just the nicest things. can I sit on
your lap please?'"
"`Colin, I am going to abandon you to your fate.'
`I'm so happy.'"
"`It will be very, very nasty for you, and that's just too bad. Got it?'
`I gurgle with pleasure.'"
-- Ford outwitting a Vogon with a rocket launcher by going into another
certain death situation.
-- One of the laws of computers and programming revealed.
-- Evidence that there will be some justice in the Universe eventually.
`Really?' said Arthur. `No I didn't. For what offence?'
Trillian frowned.
`What do you mean, offence?'
`I see.'"
-- Ford and Arthur on Random.
`I think I can confirm that that was my daughter.'
`Sweet kid.'
`You have to get to know her,' said Arthur.
`She eases up does she?'
`No,' said Arthur, `but you get a better sense of when to duck.'"
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
"So after a hectic week of believing that war was peace, that good was
bad, that the moon was made of blue cheese, and that God needed a lot of
money sent to a certain box number, the Monk started to believe that
thirty-five percent of all tables were hermaphrodites, and then broke
down."
-- An Electric Monk has a few problems.
-- Reg going into "tactful" mode.
-- The Electric Monk discovering the reason why there are so many
acronyms in computing.
The Door was The Way.
Good.
Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you
didn't have a good answer to."
-- Quantum transport physics explained.
-- Richard coping with a wierd evening as best as he could.
`I did,' said Richard. `You wouldn't have liked it. There was a horse
in the bathroom, and you know you hate that sort of thing.'"
-- Richard encounters some historical rain forest wildlife.
-- Words of wisdom from Dirk.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
-- Dirk encounters the eagle/fighter plane on his own doorstep.
-- A brief resume of the career of a record company magnate.
In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get *there*. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.
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-eight 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...
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons.
All it takes to fly is to hurl yourself at the ground... and miss.
It is not the fall that kills you. it's the sudden stop at the end.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody -- maybe even disliking them a lot -- and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. It was a difference which kept the vast majority of the population alive from day to day.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own laws.
Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.
Very deep. You should send that into Reader's Digest, they've got a page for people like you.
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
