"You're a library of me."

#Library Quotes

“Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.”
“What you need and what you want aren't the same things.”
“Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.”
“What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.”
“Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.”
“The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.”

Source : L. Sprague de Camp (1963). “The Ancient Engineers”
“When your ship comes in, make sure you are willing to unload it”
“Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.”

Source : Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.251

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