“Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. ”
“Unlike many of their consumer-minded neighbors, the Amish do not assemble their spirituality piecemeal by personal preference.”
“It pays to save things'...Templeton the rat from Chalotte's web.”
“Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions.”
“…Because every ruler celebrated his conquests by setting torch to the nearest library. Did not Julius Caesar incinerate the scrolls in the great library at Alexandria during his campaign against the republicans in Africa? Or General Stilicho, leader of the Vandals, order the burning of the Sybillene prophecies in Rome?”
“When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look like the Rat Pack in 1962. I, myself made that kid Booger look like Remington Steele.”