“..communities need to fragment.

“..the process of [justice department] agency functioning became dramatically different almost immediately after Gonzales arrived. No longer was emphasis placed on accomplishing something with the highest-quality product in a timely fashion; rather, it became a matter of making sure that a “consensus” was achieved, regardless of how long that might take and with little or no concern that quality would suffer in such a “lowest common denominator” environment.

“The Bush administration employs 150 graduates from Pat Robertson’s law school. Including the third-ranking official in the justice department, Monica Goodling.

“You know why VCs are like this? It’s not that they are bad people; it’s the limited partners. And who are the limited partners? Our great institutions — Harvard University, Stanford University, UC Berkeley.

“Your goal: invent a terrorist plot to hijack or blow up an airplane with a commonly carried item as a key component. The component should be so critical to the plot that the TSA will have no choice but to ban the item once the plot is uncovered.

“VisiCalc users loved VisiCalc; they just wanted it to do more. And it didn’t. ..when we showed what it [1-2-3] did right out of the box.. I used to get applause doing demos all the time.

“Write when you’re filled with wonder. If you wait until you’re an expert, it’s too late.

“..getting nonprofit funding generally requires strong connections to wealthy benefactors, which we didn’t have; investors in tech startups [Ed: just?] want to see a chance of a big monetary win..

“It is curious that the two major superclusters in the local Universe — Perseus-Pisces and the Great Attractor — lie at similar distances on opposite sides of the LG, and that both are partially obscured by the Zone of Avoidance [galactic plane].

“..the Great Attractor is an extended region of moderately enhanced galaxy density [a supercluster] centered behind the Galactic Plane.