鈥淪hooting down a single artillery shell is pretty cool, but artillery shells don鈥檛 come in ones.鈥�
Christopher Hellman of the Center for Defense Information, after a US Army laser blew up a shell (Contra Costa Times, San Francisco, 9 November)
鈥淭he ability of open source software to collect and harness the collective IQ of thousands of individuals across the Internet is simply amazing.鈥�
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A leaked Microsoft strategy document on the threat posed by free software (Reuters, 9 November)
鈥淲ith sperm whales, it鈥檚 just so difficult. It鈥檚 chainsaw science.鈥�
Rosemary Gales of Tasmania鈥檚 Nature Conservation Branch on whether nine beached whales suffered ear damage caused by manmade noise (The Age, Melbourne, 8 November)
鈥淚t was being portrayed by the media as a PR campaign to debunk the hoaxers, and that was never the intent.鈥�
NASA spokesman Robert Mirelson on the cancelling of a book supposedly refuting the conspiracy theorists鈥� claim that astronauts never landed on the Moon (AFP News, 11 November)
鈥淭hey have a pretty determined view that whaling is bad.鈥�
Shuya Nakatsuka of Japan鈥檚 Fisheries Agency after conservationists voted against a limited trade in whalemeat (Reuters, 11 November)
鈥淭errorism might even lurk in pornographic Web sites, with instructions embedded in X-rated photos.鈥�
The Wall Street Journal Europe (11 November)