"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the [Democratic - ed] Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary." —pg 36

"Don't you see that the whole aim of New[YorkTimes - ed]speak is to narrow the range of thought?… Has it ever occurred to your, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?…The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." —Syme, pg 46-47

"In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In New[YorkTimes - ed]speak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ing[NYT]soc." —pg 159

Thanks to George Orwell, of course.

Ed