The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than its long form.

– Douglas Adams, The Independent on Sunday, 1999

but what, after all, is the difference between a non-existent female and a non-existent male?

taču es tomēr neuzticos ar zināmām aizdomām skatos uz autoriem, kuri pārlieku dedzīgi aizstāv vienu viedokli. doukinss taču nav ne par kapeiku labāks par saviem idejiskajiem pretiniekiem.