"[The 104th Congress began] with a sense of revolutionary vision and found, quite to its surprise, that the political system was much more complex and unyielding than it thought."
-- Joel Silbey, the President White Professor of History, quoted in an editorial in the Seattle Times & Post-Intelligencer, Oct. 6.
"Sexual orientation is not caused by genes."
-- Daryl Bem, professor of psychology, in a New Scientist article reprinted in the Montreal Gazette, Oct. 19.
"Unions realized in the '80s that they had to change. It just took them too long to figure that out."
-- Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, quoted in the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal, Oct. 7.
"There's no end in sight to the power, and there's no end in sight to the practical human applications."
-- Malvin Kalos, director of the Cornell Theory Center, in an Associated Press story Oct. 28 on the future of parallel processing computers, such as the IBM supercomputer at Cornell.