"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", in a moment of
reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current
tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy-three
thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius
Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to
be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the
sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at
all."
"In other words - and this is the rock-solid principle
on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success
is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely
hidden by their superficial design flaws."
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current
tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy-three
thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius
Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to
be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the
sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at
all."
"In other words - and this is the rock-solid principle
on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success
is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely
hidden by their superficial design flaws."
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Related:
- it is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the
sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.
In other words... their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.... - What is a robot you ask? Well, the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
holds the definition.
The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man.... - The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely
complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billio
ine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.... - He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup
filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
The way it functioned was very interesting. When the DRINK button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well.... - The beach was a beach we shall not name, because his private house
was there
but it was a small sandy stretch somewhere along the hundreds of miles of coastline that runs west from Los Angeles, which is described in the new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in one entry as "junky, wunky, lunky, stunky, and what's that other word, and all kinds of bad stuff, woo," and in another, written only hours later as "being like several thousand square miles of American Express junk mail, but without the same sense of moral depth.... - I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current
conditions.
And its current conditions are not good. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... - Have a nice diurnal anomaly." -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- For a moment, nothing happened.
Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... - consult guide about Electronic Sub-Etha Auto Hitching Thumb
The Guide checks through its Sub-Etha-Net database and eventually comes up
with the following entry
The Electronic Sub-Etha Auto Hitching Thumb is a wonderful thing, but should not be mistreated....
