OK, that's funny. :D

I've been reading a book about Tarot symbolism lately, and it's totally lacking in witticisms.

"[Ted] Nelson also coined the word intertwingularity as a label for the kind of complexity that informational silos ignore. "People keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchal, categorizable [sic] and sequential when they can't," he said. "Everything is deeply intertwingled."

From "Dreaming in Code" by Scott Rosenberg.

There's no bullshit like Ted Nelson bullshit.

"Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy!"

-Gully Foyle, The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.

“Both government and people succeeded only in injuring themselves when they allowed the jailers to give full rein to their cruelty. The jailers alone derived a dubious pleasure from this license. And it is more than strange that the Third Reich, which permitted no one any pleasure, should have allowed them this satisfaction.”

from Count Luna by Alexander Lernet-Holenia.

Okay, not exactly a line, actually a paragraph, but it's all about context:

"Yet Demetrius still commanded the loyalty of his troops. He regained the initiative in the Peloponnese, he made a deal with Athens, he crossed into Asia Minor -- leaving his son Antigonus Gonatas, of whom we shall hear more, to hold the line in Greece. He captured Sardis, he even found time to marry Ptolemaïs, a daughter of Ptolemy's ex-wife, Eurydice (previously promised him by Ptolemy during one of their brief alliances). But then he made a fatal error. Instead of sticking to the coast, where he had the support (despite Ptolemy's Mediterranean acquisitions) of his still-powerful fleet, he struck inland, hoping, like Eumenes, to win over the great Eastern satrapies. Like Eumenes, he failed. Lysimachus cut off his supplies. His troops began to desert him as famine and disease struck. Demetrius gave up and recrossed the Taurus range into Cilicia, where he fell ill. In 285, Seleucus forced his surrender. Lysimachus offered Seleucus 2,000 talents to execute his prisoner. Seleucus, with well-publicized moral outrage, refused. Instead, he set up Demetrius in luxurious captivity at Apamea (the former Celaenae), where the Beseiger, bored witless, was encouraged to drink himself to death, and duly did so (283)."

Peter Green, The Hellenistic Age