"Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
(c) T.S.Eliot, "The Rock", 1934

"Cross even a stone bridge only after you have tested it."
(c) Korean proverb

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
(c) Mark Twain

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
(c) Sir Francis Bacon, 1621

System warning: your users plunged into politics!

"Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long felt want."
(c) Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, on examining a gramophone player