Great First Lines: It is the 21st century Edition

From physicsworld.com's blog, one of today's stories on quantum computing:

"This morning I was speaking to quantum-entanglement expert Jian-Wei Pan, who shares the Physics World Breakthrough of the Year 2015 award for his work on quantum teleportation...."

-Commercial quantum computer works, sort of

And that of course, for a couple reasons, reminded me of another opening sentence:

"I am on the train from Geneva to Zurich, bound for the annual forecasting dinner of the Swiss Chartered Financial Analyst society..."

-Izabella Kaminska writing for the paper rather than for Alphaville

Here's "Great First Lines: Econo-luxury Edition".