This is not a plausible scenario, not even in science fiction (trust me, I'm a professional). Cory Doctorow There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. John Rogers (Kung Fu Monkey) Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too. Isaac Asimov The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it. Mark Twain It's not hard, if you have a CS degree, a willingness to tinker with a UNIX command line, and no scruples. Charles Stross Any view of things that is not strange is false. Neil Gaiman, Sandman This is a stupidity of such breadth and depth that it comes with an event horizon. Earl Boebert, in comp.risks The odds on a compression claim turning out to be true are always identical to the compression ratio claimed. Bruce Schneier Premature optimization is the root of all evil. D. E. Knuth "A hypothetical paradox: What would happen in a battle between a Star Trek security team, who always get killed soon after appearing, and a squad of Imperial Stormtroopers, who can't hit the broad side of a planet?" Tom Galloway The emacs religion: to be saved, control excess... Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear to be bright. Until you hear them speak. Old programmers don't die, they're just cast into a void. Do you imagine I could take advantage, exploit, capitalize on a great scientific discovery? Cheat millions of people all the world over? Profane my profession? Suppose I make a few dollars, don't you think I wouldn't put it right back into science? Dr. Lorenz, "The Boogie Man Will Get You"