[twic]

> 'Don't blame me,' said Poole, fighting back gamely after one round of criticism. 'Anyway, see what a mess the twenty-first century made.'

> There was a chorus of 'What do you mean?'s around the table.

> 'Well, as soon as the so-called Age of Infinite Power got under way, and everyone had thousands of kilowatts of cheap, clean energy to play with - you know what happened!'

> 'Oh, you mean the Thermal Crisis. But that was fixed.'

> 'Eventually - after you'd covered half the Earth with reflectors to bounce the Sun's heat back into space. Otherwise it would have been as parboiled as Venus by now.'

-- 3001: The final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke

Accuracy not guaranteed!

[sai_c]

Made my day :-).