The graveyards are full of irreplaceable men.
- Elbert Hubbard ?*
Nobody wants to be the boss, so our bosses are the best kind.
- Bud Smith *
Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestions is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.
- Lewis Mumford, 1955
If you clean out the vacuum cleaner, you become the vacuum cleaner.
- Unknown
"The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."
- John Muir
"This is the trouble with dictatorships: they really don't do succession well. It's why elections are so convenient."
- Sarah Paine
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
- G.K. Chesterton
"There is no perfect country. If there is, don't move there. You'll ruin it."
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- ? ( https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ )
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
- Blaise Pascal
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The poor and middle pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the very rich pay lawyers – and the ultra-rich pay politicians.
"Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the winning side, or at least a member of the team. To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence - as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world." - Ursula K Le Guin
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.