Noted & quoted.

• Position: Sound Bites

'Businessmen will now compete with toddlers for the title of 'most annoying in the airplane.'

--Roger Entner, a telecommunications analyst, on a proposed regulation that would allow airline passengers to make cell-phone calls during flights. [The New York Times, Dec. 10]

'We don't have a disease. So we can't be 'cured.' This is just the way we are.'

--Jack Thomas, a 10th-grader at a school for autistic teenagers in Boiceville, N.Y., on efforts to find a cure for autism, instead of viewing it as an alternative form of brain wiring. [The New York...