Saturday, April 12, 2008

Stating the Obvious

One of my favorite books is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Mostly because its funny, and, most of the time, entirely right about everything. One quote from the book stuck out to me a great deal, Ford is an alien that has been on earth for some time and this is what he noticed about mankind:

"One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right?"

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