Elbert Hubbard--a writer killed aboard the Lusitania in 1915--is said to have written some 7 million words in his lifetime. Here are 17 of my favorite: “The reason that men oppose progress is not that they hate progress but that they love inertia.”
Whenever I hear somebody complain about the latest development in biotechnology, I’m reminded of one of Ogden Nash’s wisecracks: “Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on far too long!”