We may be able to Dodge an Elephant, but we Can't Fly

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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. – Baron de Montesquieu



The engineering is secondary to the vision. – Cynthia Ozick


Where the iron goes, there goes the rust. – Portuguese proverb


It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can’t a fly. – Josh Billings


We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us. – Father John Culkin


Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools. – Henry Daved Thoreau


Science is always wrong; it never solves a problem without creating ten more. – George Bernhard Shaw

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