Douglas Adams: ten years since his death, still sadly missed

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly
  exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order
  of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s
  been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

From his brilliant, prophetic 1999 essay How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet .