… Most of the words that airline staff used, or rather most of the sentences into which they were habitually arranged, had been worked so hard that t… - Douglas Adams

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.

There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

Aberystwyth (n.)

A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.