"Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market"

-- E. F. Schumacher

#Running Quotes #Tinkering Quotes #Inventor Quotes

“His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.”
“History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.”
“I'm not scandalous. I think it's actually embarrassing to be in those, yet some people will do anything to be in those magazines. I'm happy with who I am, and I'm happy with the way people portray me. If it's too normal, than that's their opinion.”
“Well look, I don't begrudge anybody in the voters and their views.”

Source : "Romney Attacks Gingrich II". Conference Call, jamiedupree.blog.ajc.com. September 12, 2014.
“I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.”
“Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.”
“Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.”

Source : Melissa de la Cruz (2013). “Gates of Paradise: Number 7 in series”, p.88, Hachette UK
“All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don't get plumber's block, and doctors don't get doctor's block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?”

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