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• What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language?
  Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly....
• Only in your dreams, Commander. -- Troi
• MATHEMATICIANS do it as continuous function.
• Riker: "Commander Shelby, prepare to initiate your plan to separate the saucer section when we find the Borg.
  Shelby: "Sir, I must remind you that Captain Picard was briefed on that plan....
• Uhura: "Admiral, the commander of the Reliant is signaling.
  He wishes to discuss terms of our surrender." Kirk...
• What we demand is a total ABSENCE of solid facts! -- Vroomfondel
• 10. "Our other starship separates into 3 pieces!" 9.
  One photon torpedo can ruin your whole day... Think about it....
• Lt. Commander Data--your plastic pal who's fun to be with.
• Begin with a function of arbitrary complexity. Feed it values, "sense data".
  Then, take your result, square it, and feed it back into your original function, adding a new set of sense data....