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It swims through a sublogical fantasy world where there are no rules that can't be violated by the set designer, where everybody is really thin and beautiful and wears really cool clothes, and where death is everywhere.
-- Stephen Hunter (The Washington Post, review of 'The Cell')

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
(The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985)

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
-- George Washington

He was just... well, like a lot of madmen. Somewhat accurate view of the problem, really insane view of the solution.
(Kid Radd)

"The west won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-westerners never do."
-- Samuel P. Huntington