It is difficult to imagine anyone disbelieving that machines fly safely and regularly around the world, but how many people believe that robots will eventually be programmed to shear sheep or that sheep will be fed a pill to defleece them?

In driver's education, they used to teach students to drive in cars with a three-on-the-tree, but now the cars all have automatic transmission.

The only major source whom the reporters reveal by name is Hugh Sloan, the slight young Nixon operative who resigned as treasurer of the Committee to Re-Elect the President when he learned of C.R.P.’s sordid political involvements. Sloan led the reporters onto the fact that funds for the burglary came from C.R.P.

EDGAR. (Moving blindly, as if playing a game.) Where's my captive Princess? The Big Bad Wolf is hungry, he wants a little girl for his supper.[…]The pot's on the fire, the water's in the pot, the salt's in the water, and I want some nice juicy girlmeat.