  We report some observations concerning two well-known approaches to
construction of quantum groups. Thus, starting from a bialgebra of
inhomogeneous type and imposing quadratic, cubic or quartic commutation
relations on a subset of its generators we come, in each case, to a q-deformed
universal enveloping algebra of a certain simple Lie algebra. An interesting
correlation between the order of initial commutation relations and the Cartan
matrix of the resulting algebra is observed. Another example demonstrates that
the bialgebra structure of sl_q(2) can be completely determined by requiring
the q-oscillator algebra to be its covariant comodule, in analogy with Manin's
approach to define SL_q(2) as a symmetry algebra of the bosonic and fermionic
quantum planes.
