Technology is the name we give to stuff that doesn't work properly yet — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Here’s an interesting little notion. Did you realize that most people’s lives are governed by telephone numbers?” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth the effort for end users,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The difference between us and a computer is that, the computer is blindingly stupid, but it is capable of being stupid many,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're still trying to work out how… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Well, what we called a computer in 1977 was really a kind of electric abacus, but…” “Oh, now, don’t underestimate the abacus,”… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“An international power supply is the device which means it doesn't matter what country you're in, or even if you know what… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Proving nothing," said Ford. "I wouldn't trust that computer to speak my weight." "I can do that for you, sure," enthused the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The idea that Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft) has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
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… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered. — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“But Douglas was a genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, he could communicate the world he saw.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
