I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
My question is where did DNA write or say this? I have yet to find any place that give the source for this quotation.
As prepayment for this information, here's a collection of quotes I culled by Mr. Adams himself from Google Groups some time ago.
"Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet." -- Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 1 Dec 1993
"One of the delights of the net is that it subverts all other media." -- Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 27 Feb 1995
[This is edited as Mr. Adams seemed to mistype it. The original quote was, "One of the delights of the net is that it subverts all other the media."]
"That is a highly intelligent question and this is a stupid answer to it." -- Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 6 Oct 1993
"What I don't enjoy is being picked on by smartasses. I guess it comes with the territory, but I still don't like it, and this is me saying so." -- Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 1 Dec 1993
And my favorite:
"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose." -- Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 13 Sep 1998
-- lkseitz (Lee K. Seitz) .at. hiwaay @dot@ net "One thing about paranoia: you'll never feel alone again." -- Corry L. Smith, hsv.general, 25 Jun 2004
In the two thousand and fourth year of Bob, Lee K. Seitz's voice said the following, in wonderful perfect quadrophonic sound with distortion levels so low as to make a man weep:
> You know the quote. It's all over the Internet:
> I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as > they fly by.
> My question is where did DNA write or say this? I have yet to find > any place that give the source for this quotation.
It's in 'The Salmon Of Doubt', I think.
I don't know where it came from originally.
-- John Coxon
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Lee K. Seitz wrote: > You know the quote. It's all over the Internet:
> I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as > they fly by.
> My question is where did DNA write or say this? I have yet to find > any place that give the source for this quotation.
I'm afraid I can't help. But I can say that although the quote is in Salmon of Doubt, the one place I remember it in there, is in the epilogue by Richard Dawkins, and just as much without source as anywhere else. Also it is definately older. Oldest usenet posting with it is from 1st of May 1989:
> I'm afraid we won't get much further unless MJ Simpson has anything to say?
I think that's probably the best hope. In my mind it relates to the (very late) publication of SLATFATF and was actually quoted by Sonny thingy. Maybe he said it while lying on a Greek beach in Interlaken?
> I seem to recall it being in the South Bank Show program (???)
It's a radio 4 program, the sort of thing you find in the 12.30 on Saturday slot as far as I know. But then I think rain is wet etc etc. -- C.
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's funny... I was *sure* that I remembered reading this marvellous quote in the Radio Scripts footnotes somewhere (but re-read them last night and couldn't see reference anywhere... perhaps it's got lost in the reprint!) *Now* I'm convinced I _heard_ Douglas say it in interview somewhere, which leads me to believe that it must be on the TV Series DVD extras since that's the only video / audio I own with any interview on it. But I'll probably watch the whole damn thing to find no reference anywhere! Perhaps it was one of these cleverly-planted ideas (like the location of the field Douglas lay in, or the rumour as to whom Marvin was based on) that didn't actually turn out to have a proper source? Maybe, in fact, somebody like Geoffrey Perkins originally said that Douglas had said it, but it wasn't really Douglas' quote? Or perhaps Douglas had said that he had said it, but hadn't originally said it after all? :-) Thinking back, actually, it's quite possible that there's reference to the quote (or perhaps even the first existence of the quote itself) in the forward of one of the Dirk Gently books? There were several great ideas in those that my bad memory has attributed to HHGG, or vice-versa.
> > I seem to recall it being in the South Bank Show program (???)
> It's a radio 4 program, the sort of thing you find in the 12.30 on Saturday > slot as far as I know.
The problem here is that the South Bank Show (which is of course a TV series made by LWT, not a BBC radio series) featured Adams in 1992.
And we have someone quoting this on the net in May 1989.
-- MJ Simpson
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Reason not withstanding the universe continued unabated and MJ Simpson spoke forth:
>> > I seem to recall it being in the South Bank Show program (???)
>> It's a radio 4 program, the sort of thing you find in the 12.30 on Saturday >> slot as far as I know.
>The problem here is that the South Bank Show (which is of course a TV >series made by LWT, not a BBC radio series) featured Adams in 1992.
>And we have someone quoting this on the net in May 1989.
Did Neil Gaiman ever do any TV appearances to promote Don't Panic? I have this picture in my mind of somebody else quoting this about Douglas rather than Douglas himself saying it. I may be getting confused with something much later such as one of the tribute shows. Definitely pre-dates 1992 as he mentioned it at the MH promo I went to in October of that year. His word then were along the lines of "you know what they says about me? I love the sound, etc." This was in response to a question on when his next book was due.
Unless someone close to him responds, I doubt we'll ever know.
> >\|__|| D|| \\ "I just love deadlines. I enjoy the sound they make > > \|__|| D | \ as they go flying by." Douglass Adams
> When I heard Adams speak, he said "I love deadlines. I like the > whooshing sound they make as they fly by". The "whooshing" bit really > makes it for me.
Sorry I took a while to get around to checking all the links. The person who wrote this is still a frequent poster in r.a.c.*. I'll see what he recalls and let you guys know.
>> And my favorite:
>> "Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, >> including this, I suppose." >> -- Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 13 Sep 1998
>Ah - I remember that one. That was from the posting where he denied that >Oprah Winfrey would play Arthur Dent, wasn't it?
Jim Carrey, actually. (I had to look it up.)
-- lkseitz (Lee K. Seitz) .at. hiwaay @dot@ net ". . . the first rule of life is to have a good time . . . the second rule of life is to hurt as few people as possible in the course of doing so. There is no third rule." -- Brendan Gill
>>>"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, >>>including this, I suppose." >>> -- Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 13 Sep 1998
>>Ah - I remember that one. That was from the posting where he denied that >>Oprah Winfrey would play Arthur Dent, wasn't it?
> Jim Carrey, actually. (I had to look it up.)
Well, yes, of course, but wasn't it that posting that wen't on with "the experiment" of denying Oprah Winfrey playing Arthur?
I'll have to look it up too, now.
Yes. Yes it is! It went like this at the end of the posting:
"I'd like to try a little experiment, and here it is.
I hereby categorically deny that the part of Arthur Dent is going to be played by Oprah Winfrey.
In article <10gt4rp2b28k...@corp.supernews.com>, Lee K. Seitz <lkseitz> wrote:
>Sorry I took a while to get around to checking all the links. The >person who wrote this is still a frequent poster in r.a.c.*. I'll see >what he recalls and let you guys know.
Well, he answered my initial e-mail, but not the follow-up. Hopefully he won't mind my quoting his e-mail.
Tom Galloway wrote: }I recall the where exactly; the University of Michigan Student Union. }The when is up in the air. I was first there in 9/88, but don't recall }just when he spoke. The earliest saved Usenet reference is May 1, 1989 }in one of Jeff Meyer's .sig quote compliations, and by that time he }and I frequently took each other's .sigs and added them to our own }collection. So it's fairly likely he got it from me, which'd put it }sometime between 9/88 and 4/89. } }tyg
-- lkseitz (Lee K. Seitz) .at. hiwaay @dot@ net "The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously." -- Hubert Humphrey
