The sound of a code being broken is usually the same as that of somebody snapping his fingers. - John Brunner

The explosion of human knowledge has accelerated to the point where even the most brilliant can’t cope with it any more. Theories have rigidified into dogma just as they did in the Middle Ages. The leading experts feel obligated to protect their creed against the heretics.

COINCIDENCE You weren't playing attention to the other half of what was going on.

There are two kinds of fool. One says, ‘This is old, and therefore good.’ And one says, ‘This is new, and therefore better.