ADMIRONISHMENT: “No one does weird quite as well as Japanese game designers and animators, who come up with concepts so bizarre that one feels a mix of admiration and astonishment, best expressed as admironishment.” – Charles Herold, author of the Game Theory article “Touches of Weird, Done Best in Japan”

SPOOFPROOF: “Nothing is spoofproof,” said Timothy L. Murray, the chief operating officer of Cross Match Technologies, which has supplied scanners used at 115 airports and 15 seaports. “So there’s a market niche that cares an awful lot about whether the thing on the reader is alive.” – Ian Austin, author of the What’s Next article “Is It Really You? A Scanner Delves Beneath Fingerprints”