“A car driver who is involved in a side-impact with an SUV is 27 times more likely to die than if it had been another car.

“Why are we telling our students not to use Wikipedia rather than educating them about how Wikipedia works? Sitting in front of us is an ideal opportunity to talk about how knowledge is produced, how information is disseminated, how ideas are shared.

“Current AM radio licences are up for renewal in 2011 and 2012. The question whether or not current stations will be commercially viable by then.

“The difference between networks is all in the profile questions. Do you want to know religion or do you want to know job title?

“The name Christopher Columbus is the anglicization of the Latin Christophorus Columbus. Also well known are his name’s rendering in modern Italian as Cristoforo Colombo and in Castilian Spanish as Cristóbal Colón.

“The government always uses cases of child porn/rape to grab new judicial powers for itself, since no one is ever willing to speak up for the accused. It’s a nasty trick that’s been going on for a long time.

“Somehow the web development universe got turned upside down. Ruby got a Pythonic framework, and Python has a TIMTOWDI smorgasbord of frameworks.

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine and sometimes people vote very unintelligently. In the long run, it is a weighing machine and the weight of how business does is what affects values over time.

“In a nation of debtors, inflation is the politically most palatable form of monetary policy. After all, everybody is focused on the short term: politicians and bureaucrats on their terms of office, consumers on their debt and their desire to buy more things they don’t need with money they don’t have, and so forth. In the long run this policy means ruin. Over time, the middle and lower classes will see their real incomes and living standards shrink, while the true beneficiaries of inflation – those who get first dibs on every dollop of newly created fiat money – amass more and more of the wealth that is stolen from its producers by inflation.

“The shameful secret of the welfare state is that it makes irresponsible slaves out of previously free and responsible people.