"This is a kindergarten. Have you switched everything off?" - Flight director Vladimir Solovyov to the crew of the space station Mir last week.
"My problem is that I would generally prefer the sound of my fishtank. It's more interesting to me and less predictable than most of the records around." - Brian Eno, pioneer of computer-based "generative music", in the London Times.
"[The Year 2000 software problem] is the computing equivalent of housework; a lot of drudgery that must be taken care of to avoid a big mess. I'm not fond of housework either. In fact I outsource most of it to my cleaning lady." - Journalist Louise Kehoe in her Financial Times column.
