Technology and you
Apr. 2nd, 2009 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lproven"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique in its current tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy five thousand 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 that 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 Galaxy-wide success is founded -- their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.'"
- Douglas Adams, So long, and thanks for all the fish
(As quoted in the FAQ for the Opera web browser, amongst many other places.)
EDIT: typo in source material fixed!
"'In other words -- and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxy-wide success is founded -- their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.'"
- Douglas Adams, So long, and thanks for all the fish
(As quoted in the FAQ for the Opera web browser, amongst many other places.)
EDIT: typo in source material fixed!
