Author: nickvooi

QOTD: "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." Leonardo da Vinci

QOTD: "You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure." Margaret Thatcher

QOTD: "Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes." Nikita Khrushchev

QOTD: "Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, roads, the fresh water system, and public health what have the Romans ever done for us?" Graham Chapman

QOTD: "No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by the invention of the toilet." Sylvia Burwell

QOTD: "Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science." Lawrence Henderson

QOTD: "It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine." Winston Churchill

QOTD: "No one starts a war or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it." Karl von Clausewitz

QOTD: "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." Winston Churchill

QOTD: "Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or exciting our sense of wonder." Carl Sagan