> "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow." -- Charles Brower.

Thats a good, albeit thoughtful, one for the "fortune" file :) (I am referring to the Unix "fortune" tool here). "fortune" typically errs more to the funny side of life. I called it just now and it enlightened me thusly:

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright"

"We have met the enemy, and he is us.
-- Walt Kelly"

and last but not least:

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble acturiety and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."

--
Stephan