Miniature phones you can carry in your pocket and that use satellite tracking technology to pinpoint your location to just a few centimetres; itty-bitty bugs that supermarkets use to track their products; bus passes that simultaneously monitor your body temperature to find out how often you have sex...
--James Harkin, New Statesman, January 15, 2007

Mother Goose: You, why despair?
The girl shalt obtain 
The present shall her guardian's sanction gain 
The GOOSE appears 
Nay doubt not, while she's kindly used, she'll lay 
A golden egg on each succeeding day; 
You served me - no reply - there lies your way. 
    -- Harlequin and Mother Goose; or, The Golden Egg by Thos. Dibdin, 1st perf. Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, Dec. 29, 1806

GALKAYO, Somalia - Beyond clan rivalry and Islamic fervor, an entirely different motive is helping fuel the chaos in Somalia: profit. A whole class of opportunists - from squatter landlords to teenage gunmen for hire to vendors of out-of-date baby formula - have been feeding off the anarchy in Somalia for so long that they refuse to let go. 
  - New York Times, April 25, 2007

Madness has been the instigator of so much suffering and destruction in the world throughout the ages that it is vitally important to uncover its mechanisms. 
  - Publisher's advertisement, Schizophrenia: The Bearded Lady Disease