To achieve complete understanding
Robert Heinlein

Low paying, low skill employment
Douglas Coupland

The entire telecommunications and computing network
William Gibson

A situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem
Joseph Heller

Foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals
Miguel de Cervantes

Someone with naively excessive optimism
Eleanor H. Porter

Electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of 0.01 to 10 nanometers
Wilhelm Röntgen

Object detection system utilizing radio waves
U.S. Navy

An amplification device that stimulates the emission of photons
Gordon Gould

A region of space-time where gravity prevents light from escaping
John A. Wheeler

An idea that spreads from person to person within a culture
Richard Dawkins

A protein in misfolded form that causes other proteins to misfold too
Stanley B. Prusiner

An electroshock weapon
Jack Cover

A fictional region used for travel faster than the speed of light
John Campbell

The branch of technology dealing with robots
Isaac Asimov

A fictional photon based weapon
Gene Rodenberry

A fictional laser sword with a metal hilt
George Lucas

Drawing political boundaries for personal or party gain
The Boston Gazette

Negative attitudes towards or fear of persons who are gay, lesbian or bisexual
George Weinberg

Unorganized and uncontrolled development, particularly in the Los Angeles area
Time Magazine

Trying to make political advertising look like grass-roots support
Lloyd Bentsen

A middle class woman with school aged children
Susan B. Casey

States that typically or currently support a political party or candidate
Tim Russert

A product with smooth curves, bright colors and no sharp objects
Steven Skov Holt

A work (often book or movie) whose plot precedes that of an earlier, related work
Anthony Boucher

The moment when a television show irreparably declines in quality
Jon Hein

A diary-like website of daily or periodic entries
Peter Merholz

Something intuitively known without reliance on external evidence
Stephen Colbert

Kneeling on one knee in prayer, with head on fist, in an unusual or unexpected place
Jared Kleinstein

A customizable, instantly recognizable, quoted or misquoted phrase that can be used in an entirely open array of different variants
Glen Whitman

Acceptable, permissible, used correctly
David S. Cohen

To make something larger
Dan Greaney