Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder. - Erik Naggum

Whoever decided to use the semicolon to end something should just be taken out and have his colon semified. (At least COBOL and SQL managed to use a period.)

Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery for dummies in 21 days or whatever. It's just plain inappropriate, and it's intentionally out of people's reach.

Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?