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One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - 
supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take that 
cat apart to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a 
non-working cat. The cat wasn't a sort of clunky mechanism that was 
susceptible to our available tools of analysis. 
--Douglas Adams Author, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor 
to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly 
ignores the fact that it was he who by peddling second-hand, 
second-rate technology, led them all into it in the first place. 
--Douglas Adams Author, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think 
I have ended up where I intended to be. 
--Douglas Adams 

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. 
--Douglas Adams 

I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they 
make as they fly by. 
--Douglas Adams Author, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 

In the beginning the universe was created. 
This has made a lot of people angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. 
--Douglas Adams 

The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, 
and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry 
failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. 
Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end 
--Douglas Adams