And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of 'Hitchhiker's,' and I thought, 'No, no.' I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.

Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?

Very strange people, physicists - in my experience the ones who aren't dead are in some way very ill.

Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.