The biggest lesson from Africa was that lifes joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields they laughed all the time. – Andrew Shue
[T]hose who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. – George J.W. Goodman, The Money Game
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Daltons, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction. – Charles Babbage