Erratum in Strings and Symmetries 1991, eds.
Strings are pointless.
Conformal field theory isn't conformal, since the string tension isn't dimensionless, and it isn't field theory, since it only describes one-particle states. Topological field theory is nontrivial only on the boundary, so it's a hollow theory. Matrix models don't model anything, and W gravity has too much levity. In the meantime, phenomenologists talk about model building with supergravity, which theorists have forgotten and experimentalists never learned. Unfortunately, as theorists and experimentalists diverge, we will need an increasingly fine scale to differentiate all the different shades of physicists between them.