Thank you for your educational post. I will keep this in mind for the future (I did try googling it to find more about the phrase before I used it, but did not come upon anything similar to your link). That said, just because I use "to be, or not to be" in a post that has no angst to it, or that is not suicidal, doesn't mean that those words aren't appropriate. Newton may have meant them sarcastically, with arrogance. I meant them more literally (hey, it's a great term, even if it can have many meanings). Of course, for the more arrogant among us (say, ... ME!), we may mean them more the way Newton did: building upon the work of others, we're geniuses. ;->