Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
~ J. K. Galbraith
I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.
Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.
If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
