* add steve martin quote

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@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ I just didn't think them through.
 You think to yourself, hey, it's a test tube, for God's sake. Pretty
 soon, though, the rush from a test tube isn't enough. You want to
 experiment more and more. Then before you know it, you're laying in
-the corner of a lab somewhere with a soxilette apparatus in one hand,
+the corner of a lab somewhere with a Soxhlet apparatus in one hand,
 a three neck flask in the other, strung out and begging for grant
 money.
  -- Tim Mitchell, 1994 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize Speech
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ tannins. The next step is to reduce the cost of the HPLC-E technology
 to the point where it can be manufactured for less than the cost of a
 Boeing 757.
  -- Charles Stross "Extracts from the Club Diary" in _Toast_ p83-4
-% 
+%
 Something the junk advertisers don't seem to understand: we live in an
 information super-saturated world. If I don't want to buy something,
 no amount of shouting or propogandizing will budge me; all it will do
@@ -819,7 +819,22 @@ is get me annoyed. On the other hand, if I have a need for your
 product, I can seek it out in an eyeblink.
  -- Charles Stross "Toast: A Con Report" in _Toast_ p136
 %
+[On a trip back from collecting grass seeds in tropical bird stomachs
+and being thought by the customs agents to be transporting Marijuana.]
+"Anyone so square as to tell you they are transporting grass seeds is
+bound to be ok"
+ -- Peter K. Klopfer _Seeds of Doubt_ Science 134:177 10 April 2009
+%
 "What, now?"
 "Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar.
 Therefore, immediacy."
   -- Iain M. Banks _Look to Windward_ p 213
+%
+He quite enjoyed the time by himself in the mornings. The day was too
+early to have started going really wrong.
+  -- Terry Pratchet _Only You Can Save Mankind_ p133
+%
+Let me bring you up to speed:
+We know nothing.
+You are now up to speed.
+  -- Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau in _The Pink Panther 2_ (2009)