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  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• It has long been an article of our folklore that too much knowledge or skill, or especially consummate expertise, is a bad thing.
  It dehumanizes those who achieve it, and makes difficult their commerce with just plain folks, in whom good old common sense has not been obliterated by mere book learning or fancy notions....
• The politicians's passion is to be mistaken for a statesman. -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981
• Long's Notes 1) Always store beer in a dark place.
  2) Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent....
• Science fiction is to the totalitarian state what Aesop's fables were to the institution of slavery in the sixth century B.
  C. It is, of course, subversive. by taking ideas too seriously, it ridicules people....
• The morally unthinkable killing of children has not only become routine, but it is increasing in the world's leading democracy.
  What will it take for parents and religious, community and political leaders to stand up and say enough?...
• However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise.
  There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs....
• I know the guy who writes all those bumper stickers. He hates New York. -- Steven Wrigh
• Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
  Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!...