Arthur Koestler
"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."
John Ruskin
"There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey."
Edward Shepherd Mead
"Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers."
John Tudor
"A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
Edgar Watson Howe
"A poem is no place for an idea."
Ronald Reagan
"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away."
Ambrose Bierce
"Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."
Thomas Jefferson
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive."
William Ralph Inge
"A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors."
Douglas Adams
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."