Appears in large friendly letters on the cover of the HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy, which is perhaps why it has sold so well.
Good advice in most situations.
ThereIsNoSituationSoBadThatYouCantMakeItWorseByPanicking.
Take an AmigaComputer, activate its narrator device, and execute this algorithm:
volume = 10 pitch = 440 speed = 2 for n from 1 to 100 volume += 1 pitch += 10 speed *= 0.99 speak (volume, pitch, speed, "Don't Panic!") sleep (speed)The effect sounds absolutely terrifying...
Also a catch phrase of 'Mr Jones the Butcher' from a British cult comedy TV series from the 1970's/80's called "Dad's Army" see - http://www.mgnet.karoo.net/dads%20army.htm Corporal Jones