RD Brewer continues that statement thus:
...Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming, in thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove. That, if requiring fail, he will compel; and bids you, in the bowels of the Lord, deliver up the votes, and to take mercy on the poor souls for whom this hungry campaign opens his vasty jaws; and on your head turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries, the dead men's blood, the pining maidens groans, for husbands, fathers and betrothed lovers, that shall be swallow'd in this controversy.
The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.