See this

From: Aparajita Tripathi
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 15:12
To: Shrikant Sundaram
Subject: See this

Hi,

Have you read ‘The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s guide to galaxy? By Douglas Adams? (My favourite in green)

See this:

• He looked around for the others. They obstinately persisted in their absence.
• There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.
• "On a waiter's bill pad," said Slartibartfast, "reality and unreality collide on such a fundamental level that each becomes the other and anything is possible, within certain parameters."
• 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.
• "What really is the point of trying to teach anything to anybody?"
  This question seemed to provoke a murmur of sympathetic approval from up and down the table.
  Richard continued, "What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself.
• The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?
  "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy."
• The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.
• The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.
• "(..) Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!"
  "The what?" said Richard.
  "That catflap! A device of the utmost cunning, perspicuity and invention. It is a door within a door, you see, a ..."
  "Yes," said Richard, "there was also the small matter of gravity."
  "Gravity," said Dirk with a slightly dismissed shrug, "yes, there was that as well, I suppose. Though that, of course, was merely a discovery. It was there to be discovered." ...
  "You see?" he said dropping his cigarette butt, "They even keep it on at weekends. Someone was bound to notice sooner or later. But the catflap ... ah, there is a very different matter. Invention, pure creative invention. It is a door within a door, you see."
• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
• Thor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it.
• The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
• The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along
• We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
• Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so
• Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
• "Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner."
• "Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
• I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: 'Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end.'
• First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
• The World Wide Web is] the only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.
• 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 who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.
• I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by. (This quote was originally used by Scott Adams in a Dilbert comic strip)
• Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. (Ford Prefect)
• "What's so bad about being drunk? Just ask a glass of water."

Aparajita Tripathi
AVALON Dev | BT-01 | Developer
Chandivali, Mumbai-400072
Phone: 022-66882000 | Extn: 7774 | Cell: 09987587985
Email: aparajita.tripathi@techmahindra.com