“Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.” — Alan Perlis

“Modern invention has been a great leveller. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.” – Ivor Brown, The Heart of England


“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” – J. K. Galbraith, Letter to Kennedy, 1962

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