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.
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason
- Robin Williams, in the movie Man of the Year
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph