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• The 486 is to a modern CPU as a Jules Verne reprint is to a modern SF novel. -- Henry Spence
• Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve. -- Jules Verne
• Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat.
  -- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey...
• How many science fiction writers -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Two. One to screw in the light bulb, and one to say, "In 1876, Jules Verne had the first intimations that electrostatic power was a viable energy alternative....
• The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the globe.
  Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert where a man is never alone, for he can feel life quivering all about him....
• Once a person has been hired, inertia sets in, and the employer would rather settle for the current employee's incompetence and idiosyncracies than look for a new employee.
  -- Jules Becke...
• Pedal to the Metal
• Then Nicholl, using his own calculations, demonstrated that it was absolutely impossible to give any object at all the velocity of 12,000 yards per second.
  And, algebra in hand, he maintained that even if such a velocity could be attained, such a heavy projectile could never be lifted beyond the limits of the Earth's atmosphere!...
• I Work with Diamonds: Jules Sparkle