the television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes
a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren
which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little... 

     - Ray Bradbury 

"Mutually consenting classes may of course do whatever they like with each
 other, but even that doesn't necessarily make it right."
                        -- Programming Perl, 2nd ed.

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other.
   Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."
   --- Katharine Hepburn

Government doesn't work. 

     - Harry Browne 

"A watched rock boils no moss."
                        -- brien@asan.com's signature, alt.discordia