July 2012
15 posts
Timely exchange from the 55 year-old pages of Atlas Shrugged
- “He didn't invent iron ore and blast furnaces, did he?”
- “Who?”
- “Rearden. He didn't invent smelting and chemistry and air compression. He couldn't have invented his Metal but for thousands and thousands of other people. His Metal! Why does he think it's his? Why does he think it's his invention? Everybody uses the work of everybody else. Nobody ever invents anything.”
- She said, puzzled, “But the iron ore and all those other things were there all the time. Why didn't anybody else make that Metal, but Mr. Rearden did?”
“When you see ten troubles rolling down the road, if you don’t do anything, nine of them will roll into a ditch before they get to you.”
—Calvin Coolidge
“People underestimate how important it is in a relationship to be exactly the same level of inane.”
—Jen Doll
So, the latest Tumblr iPhone app is pretty slow, right?
And buggy. Barely usable.
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