diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README
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--- a/doc/README
+++ b/doc/README
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-This directory contains the following files:
+    Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good;
+    and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
+        --- Dick Brandon
+
+These files should be better than nothing:
 
 files
 	What's where.