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For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken

The F-15 Eagle: If its up, well shoot it down. If its down, well blow it up. -- A McDonnel-Douglas ad from a few years ago

"If its not loud, it doesnt work!" -- Blank Reg, from "Max Headroom"

"...I could accept this openness, glasnost, perestroika, or whatever you want to call it if they did these things: abolish the one party system; open the Soviet frontier and allow Soviet people to travel freely; allow the Soviet people to have real free enterprise; allow Western businessmen to do business there, and permit freedom of speech and of the press. But so far, the whole country is like a concentration camp. The barbed wire on the fence around the Soviet Union is to keep people inside, in the dark. This openness that you are seeing, all these changes, are cosmetic and they have been designed to impress shortsighted, naive, sometimes stupid Western leaders. These leaders gush over Gorbachev, hoping to do business with the Soviet Union or appease it. He will say: "Yes, we can do business!" This while his military machine in Afghanistan has killed over a million people out of a population of 17 million. Can you imagine that? -- Victor Belenko, MiG-25 fighter pilot who defected in 1976 "Defense Electronics", Vol 20, No. 6, pg. 110

It is better to never have tried anything than to have tried something and failed. -- motto of jerks, weenies and losers everywhere