Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your th and th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited.
Douglas AdamsThe more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked. But it's not true that I would rather write than read. I would rather read than write. To be honest I would rather hang upside down in a bucket than write.
Douglas AdamsBut the plans were on displayโฆโ โOn display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.โ โThatโs the display department.โ โWith a flashlight.โ โAh, well, the lights had probably gone.โ โSo had the stairs.โ โBut look, you found the notice, didnโt you?โ โYes,โ said Arthur, โyes 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 โBeware of the Leopard.
Douglas AdamsI think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.
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