Full of Sound and Fury “Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.” – Wallace Stanley Sayre “This is a metaphor indicating that you need not argue about every little feature just because you know enough to do so. Some people have commented that the amount of noise generated by a change is inversely proportional to the complexity of the change.” “That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing.” — Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 25-28 “In an infinite universe, the one thing sentient life cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.” – Douglas Adams