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“designer can inject the most artistic flair. The word “ampersand” didn’t come into being until the nineteenth century. At that time & was customarily taught as the twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet and pronounced “and.” When schoolchildren recited their ABCs, they concluded with the words “and, per se [i.e., by itself ], ‘and.’” This eventually became corrupted to “ampersand.” The symbol is a favorite of law and”
― When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse
― When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse
“Dear White Fella When I am born I’m black When I grow up I’m black When I am sick I’m black When I go out ina sun I’m black When I git cold I’m black When I git scared I’m black And when I die I’m still black. But you white fella When you’re born you’re pink When you grow up you’re white When you git sick you’re green When you go out ina sun you go red When you git cold you go blue When you git scared you’re yellow And when you die you’re grey And you got the cheek to call me coloured?”
― The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
― The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
“Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.”
― The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
― The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
“But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5”
― The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
― The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
“long middle finger resembling a twig that it could use for probing for grubs. There is a telling example of convergent evolution when an unrelated species (the Long-Fingered Possum from Papua New Guinea) devised a similar strategy to address the same problem. (Douglas was very intrigued by the implications of convergence. What need is there to posit a designer if the operation of random forces, constrained by the reality of the world, produces the same elegant solution, as if there were no choice in the matter?) We monkeys have”
― Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams
― Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams
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