I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.

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

Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. " 'All the doors in his spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.' " As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sighlike quality to it. "Hummmmmmmyummmmmmmah!" it said.

Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.