* The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a
knight in shining armour to lead all customers out
of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the
fact that it was he, by peddling second rate
technology, led them into it in the first place, and
continues to do so today.
o Guardian, "Biting back at Microsoft" (1995)
* We don't have to save the
world. The world is big enough to look after itself.
What we have to be concerned about is whether or not
the world we live in will be capable of sustaining
us in it.
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The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep
gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet
going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles
away and think this to be normal is obviously some
indication of how skewed our perspective tends to
be.
o Speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge, UK, (1998)
* A learning experience is one of those things that
say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do
that."
o Interview in The Daily Nexus (5 April 2000),
reprinted in The Salmon of Doubt
* We don't have to save the world. The world is big
enough to look after itself. What we have to be
concerned about is whether or not the world we live
in will be capable of sustaining us in it.
- Speech at The University of California, videoed by
UCTV (May 2001).
* Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and
thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find
myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in,
fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits
me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me
in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun
rises in the sky and the air heats up and as,
gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's
still frantically hanging on to the notion that
everything's going to be alright, because this world
was meant to have him in it, was built to have him
in it; so the moment he disappears catches him
rather by surprise. I think this may be something we
need to be on the watch out for.'
- Speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge, UK, (1998)
- As quoted in Richard Dawkins' Eulogy for Douglas
Adams
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