Post by a***@gmail.comI'm building up a file of good HHG quotes, and would greatly appreciate any
contributions. E-mail your favorites to me, and include the speaker please.
(And make them accurate, please.)
Lisa,
It's been done, but please feel free to "share and enjoy" the quotes I have posted at http://www.informationoverload.us/
I, for one, am curious if Lisa from 1992 ever compiled and published
that quotefile. Indeed, it would be fantastic if she chimed in to the
convo here!
However, neat it is that you have a site of HHG info, and it puts me to
mind that, in the spirit of the early web (mid-90s), I think it's time
to put a few links to other HHG fan sites on my own. I'm not going to go
full "web ring" about it, but a bit of cross linking as symbolic push
against everyone relying on being found by google alone.
My site (of fandom in general, not just HHG) is http://sub-ethr.net/ and
I don't get have a links page :)
Your quoted bits are definitely good commentary on politics, and his
description of the the danger posed by the Designer People in Young
Zaphod Plays It Safe is one I think of a lot with current US politics...
"""
some were deeply, deeply dangerous. Dangerous because they didn't ring
alarm bells in other people. They could walk through situations the way
that ghosts walk through walls, because no one spotted the danger.
...
"...they are the most dangerous creatures that ever lived because there is
nothing they will not do if allowed, and nothing they will not be
allowed to do..."
"""
That is much better than the endless "Trump = Zaphod" analogies I see,
which I generally hate since I see a world of difference between them
(apart from both being "narcissistic" and "president" anyway)
My favourite underrated HHG quote is this, which managed to predict the
future of computer interfaces surprisingly well
"""
A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as
Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wavebands for news of himself. The
machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been
operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the
technology became more sophisticated the controls were made
touch-sensitive --- you merely had to brush the panels with your
fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general
direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular
expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still
if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme.
"""
.../Nemo
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