Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 “The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.”—Lewis Mumford, American historian, 1895-1990
Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 “Mankind censures injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BC
Posted on August 27, 2021August 27, 2021 “Many commit the same crime and face a different fate: that man gets the cross, this one the crown.”—Decimus Juvenal, Roman poet, 1st-2nd centuries, AD
Posted on August 25, 2021 “A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”—Aesop, Greek fabulist, 620-564 BC
Posted on August 13, 2021August 13, 2021 “The public don’t know what they want; it’s my job to tell them.”—Alec Issigonis, British automotive designer, 1906-1988
Posted on August 9, 2021August 9, 2021 “You cannot conceive the many without the one.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348
Posted on July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 “People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”—Anatole France, French man-of-letters, 1844-1924
Posted on July 18, 2021July 18, 2021 “Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; American jurist; 1841-1935
Posted on July 9, 2021July 9, 2021 “A camel is a horse designed by a committee.”—Alec Issigonis, British automotive designer, 1906-1988
Posted on June 30, 2021June 30, 2021 “Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.”—Hannah Arendt, American political scientist, 1906-1975
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