I believe that quotes (which may or may not be lengthy) are as useful and often as **essential** on a StackExchange community focused on philosophy as code examples are on StackOverflow.

In this particular case, I don't see any way whatsoever to illustrate the position I'm taking without at least one of those quotes. While I did [**re-post my answer without the quotes**][1] following [**virmaior**][2]'s removal of the original version, I do believe essential information (in the form of examples) is lost and I consider this modified answer as a mutilation of the original answer.


  [1]: http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/9578/are-the-efforts-to-fuse-philosophy-and-pop-culture-superficial/34427#34427
  [2]: http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/5381/virmaior