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@@ -528,9 +528,16 @@ S: sudo make me a sandwich
 B: Okay.
  -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c149.html
 %
+We cast this message into the cosmos. [...] We are trying to survive
+our time so we may live into yours. We hope some day, having solved
+the problems we face, to join a community of Galactic Civilizations.
+This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill
+in a vast and awesome universe.
+ -- Jimmy Carter on the Voyager Golden Record
+%
 Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they
 have exhausted all other possibilities.
- -– W. Churchill
+ -- W. Churchill
 %
 As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
 instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
@@ -592,3 +599,19 @@ the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the
 benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any
 curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
  -- Adolf Hitler _Mein Kampf_ p403
+%
+I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended
+up where I needed to be.
+ -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_
+%
+Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what
+it's like to be Beethoven, and Bach tells us what it's like to be the
+universe.
+ -- Douglas Adams
+%
+PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type of bureaucratic
+environment: one typified by interminable presentations with lots of
+fussy little bullet-points and flashy dissolves and soundtracks masked
+into the background, to try to convince the audience that the goon
+behind the computer has something significant to say.
+ -- Charles Stross _The Jennifer Morgue_ p33