Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. – Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society. – Jean Piaget
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? – Bertrand Russell