"When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of being childish and the desire to be very grown-up."--C. S. Lewis

"I've come up with a set of rules that describes our reactions to technologies. 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." --Douglas Adams

“We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.” --Douglas Adams

"A society where everyone can make jokes about everyone else and everyone laughs is a truly tolerant society. Political correctness charged censorship only serves to engender resentment and distance between social groups." --Yahtzee Crosshaw 2009

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." --George Santayana