THE PAST IS JUST THE BEGINNING

There is in Washington D.C., a sign over the entrance to the U.S. Patent Office -- where new things are the order of the day. The sign proclaims: "The Past is but Prologue."

One day a tourist asked a cab driver what the sign meant. Said the cabbie: "It means, ’Brother, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!’"

(Russell Brownworth "Part One - Tenth Hours" 1/19/2009)