All Power Corrupts
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
— Unknown
We don’t have one big advantage so we have to weave a rope of many small advantages.
— Jeff Bezos
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
— George Bernard Shaw
Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term. Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.
I have had this recipe since the early days of email. It is not original but it is de-licious nonetheless. Enjoy . . .
A job done by half is never done right.
— Mom
My life is spent in one long effort to escape the commonplaces of existence.
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, spoken by Sherlock Holmes in The Red-Headed League
Ditto.