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The Encyclopaedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed
to do the work of a man.  The marketing division of Sirius Cybernetics
Corporation defines a robot as 'Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With'.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the
first against the wall when the revolution comes', with a footnote to effect
that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking
over the post of robotics correspondent.
        Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopaedia Galactica that
had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in
the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics
Corporation as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the
wall when the revolution came'.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
                -- Buckminster Fuller

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

The end of the world will occur at three p.m., this Friday,
with symposium to follow.

The ends justify the means.
                -- after Matthew Prior

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind
of thing.  Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation
of these atoms is talking moonshine.
                -- Ernest Rutherford, after he had split the atom for
                the first time

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable
in full pursuit of the uneatable.
                -- Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance"

The English instinctively admire any man
who has no talent and is modest about it.
                -- James Agate, British film and drama critic

The entire work force of the Communist countries is sunjected to periodic
purges (called verifications in Newspeak).  One of the most severe took
place in 1957 when Novotny, rattled by the Hungarian Revolution the year
before, tried hard to weed out "radishes" (red outside, white inside) from
all but insignificant positions.  Any one of the following would often
result in the loss of one's job:  Bourgeois or Jewish family background,
relatives abroad, contacts with former capitalists, having lived in a
Western country, insufficient knowledge of Communist literature, and others.

        A man is interviewed by a "Verification Committee."
        "What kind of family do you come from?"
        "A rich, Jewish family."
        "And your wife?"
        "A German aristocrat."
        "Have you ever been to the West?"
        "I spent most of my life in England."
        "How did you make a living there?"
        "A friend supported me."
        "Where did you get the money from?"
        "He owned a textile factory."
        "Who was Lenin?"
        "Never heard of him."
        "What is your name?"
        "Karl Marx."

[The ERA] encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children,
practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
                -- Pat Robertson, Man of God and serious Republican
                   presidential aspirant.