Douglas Adams, the British science fiction author, is famous not only for writing The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy five-book series, but also for his clever thoughts on technology.
On BBC Online chat, which took place on November 8, 2000, Douglas Adams said:
We notice things that don’t work. We don’t notice things that do. We notice computers, we don’t notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don’t notice books.
The quote was included in The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time, the book published in May 2002, exactly one year after the author’s death.