Quoted by Douglas Adams, in How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, September 8, 2013 http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html,
“Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet.”
“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
Source: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
canular refers to hoaxes, humorous deceptions.
The Paris Review interview (1984)
Context: You know, the Cathars believed that the world was not created by God but by a demon who had stolen a few technological secrets from Him and made this world — which is why it doesn’t work. I don’t share this heresy. I’m too afraid! But I put it in a play called This Extraordinary Brothel, in which the protagonist doesn’t talk at all. There is a revolution, everybody kills everybody else, and he doesn’t understand. But at the very end, he speaks for the first time. He points his finger towards the sky and shakes it at God, saying, “You rogue! You little rogue!” and he bursts out laughing. He understands that the world is an enormous farce, a canular played by God against man, and that he has to play God’s game and laugh about it.
“Evolution doesn’t work on creationists.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“There’s always stuff to work on. You’re never there.”
“Working hard doesn’t make you rich, working smart does.”
Future Proofing You (2021)
“Everything sculpture has, my work doesn’t.”
Donald Judd (1967). quoted in: Joseph Kosuth, (1969), " Art after Philosophy http://www.ubu.com/papers/kosuth_philosophy.html"
1960s
April 1, 2001, First Arab Conference on Arabizing the Internet, Amman, Jordan.
Whole Earth Discipline (2009), page 216.
