People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
-- Bokonon, "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"[W]hen the policy you are adopting is worse for everybody than a policy
you agree is stupid, the policy you are adopting is best characterized
as really stupid."
-- Brad DeLong (2009)
"Obviously, a major malfunction has occurred."
-- Steve Nesbitt, voice of Mission Control, January 28,
1986, as the shuttle Challenger exploded within view
of the grandstands.