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@@ -804,3 +804,28 @@ necessarily encounter fundamental toast particles which the author
 will unflinchingly designate here as "croutons".
  -- Cser, Jim. Nanotechnology and the Physical Limits of Toastability.
     AIR 1:3, June, 1995.
+%
+[The] JK-88 [coffee] percolator is capable of acheiving the ultimate
+balance of aroma and density, aftertaste and emollience, pentosans and
+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
+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