Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.