When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. – Lois McMaster Bujold

Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. – Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since the Middle Ages progress in hygiene has been characterized by the conquest of stink. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)