Elbert Hubbard
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
Rants and raves, discussions and observations about the world as I find it..
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
"Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water."
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
"I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
"Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working."