The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely
complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine 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.
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine 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.
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Related:
- A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retrea
that is progress. -- Henry Frederic Amiel, Swiss philosophe... - How many
mothers in law
-- does it take to change a light bulb?
A hundred. One to change it and the other ninety nine to say, "I told you so!... - How many
sopranos
-- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
One hundred. One to do it, and ninety-nine to discuss how it was really too high for her.... - I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per
cent an idiot.
-- George Bernard Shaw... - SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment.
A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine.... - How many
pre-med students
-- does it take to change a light bulb?
One hundred; one to change the light bulb, the other ninety-nine to stand around wondering why they weren't chosen.... - Pooh, will you always remember me, even when I'm a hundred?
asked Christopher Robin. Pooh thought for a minute.... - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", in a moment of
reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current
tally of five millio
ine 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.... - Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of
making excuses.
-- George Washington Carve...

