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by Stephanie Booth on 11.11.2005

in Stuff that doesn't fit

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Tout ce qui existait déjà dans le monde avant notre naissance est simplement normal; les innovations techniques faites entre ce moment-là et jusqu'à nos trente ans sont incroyablement excitantes et créatives, et avec un peu de chance on pourra faire carrière avec; tout ce qui est inventé après nos trente ans est contre-nature et sonne le glas de la civilisation telle que nous la connaissons, jusqu'à ce que ça ait été là une dizaine d'années, quand ça devient graduellement OK, en fin de compte. (Paraphrasé d'après Douglas Adams.)

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A lot of truth in what Douglas Adams says here:

  1. everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
  2. anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
  3. anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

Douglas Adams

How old are you?

Thanks to Kevin for pointing me there.

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1 Hervé 11.11.2005 at 0:44
  1. This sentence is a bit frightening… Now I’m trying to check the things I don’t like to look if they are less than 8 years old.
    Something to comfort me : If blogging is younger than 8 years old, I’m not entirely lost, because I think it is a fine “invention”.
2 Hervé 10.11.2005 at 22:44
  1. This sentence is a bit frightening… Now I'm trying to check the things I don't like to look if they are less than 8 years old.
    Something to comfort me : If blogging is younger than 8 years old, I'm not entirely lost, because I think it is a fine “invention”.
3 Somebaudy 14.11.2005 at 22:34

Tu as quel âge, Stéphanie ? ;-)

4 Somebaudy 14.11.2005 at 20:34

Tu as quel âge, Stéphanie ? ;-)

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