Quotes.

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"We've constantly underestimated the kind of levels the epidemic can roach."

--DR. NEFF WALKER, a United Nations epidemiologist, on a prediction that AIDS could claim 65 million more lives by 2020.

"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar."

--DONALD FOSTER, a professor of English at Vassar, admitting that his seven years' work to establish Shakespeare as the author of an obscure poem was wrong.

"As long as life continues this, you will have people who think like me."

--ZAYDAN ZAYDAN, a failed Palestinian suicide bomber.

"In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers."

--RICHARD POWER, of the Computer Security Institute, an association of computer security professionals, on hackers who break into computer systems of online merchants and get access to thousands of credit-card numbers.

"If you don't watch the commercials, someone's going to have to pay for television and it's going to be you."

--JAMIE KELLNER, chief executive of Turner Broadcasting, on TV viewers using digital video recorders to skip the ads.

"They're totally mindless killing machines."

--RICHARD HOMMAN, of the Virginia...