He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination and taxes. - H. E. Martz
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. - Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943)
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. - Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other. - Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. - Senator Everett Dirksen (1896 - 1969)
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. - Woody Allen (1935 - )
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
Sunday, April 5, 2009
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