Fortune Documents the Great Legal Decisions: We think that we may take judicial notice of the fact that the term "bitch" may imply some feeling of endearment when applied to a female of the canine species but that it is seldom, if ever, so used whe

There is perhaps in every thing of any consequence, secret history, which it would be amusing to know, could we have it authentically communicated.

Let me take you a button-hole lower.

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

XLI: The more one produces, the less one gets. XLII: Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing. XLIII: Hardware works best when it matters the least. XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a we

The intelligence of any discussion diminishes with the square of the number of participants.

Life is like a 10 speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

There's no justice in this world.

I am America's child, a spastic slogging on demented limbs drooling I'll trade my PhD for a telephone voice.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is a constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read.

So little time, so little to do.

If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

History is nothing but a collection of fables and useless trifles, cluttered up with a mass of unnecessary figures and proper names.

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable. ... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch. Space is indifferent to what we do; it has no fe

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's just the opposite."

Chance is perhaps the work of God when He did not want to sign.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

I need another lawyer like I need another hole in my head.

Anything anybody can say about America is true.

The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of adjustment. To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

And they mainly want to teach them not to question, not to imagine, but to be obedient and behave well so that they can hold them forever as children to their bosom as the second millennium lurches toward its panicky close.

"The jig's up, Elman." "Which jig?"

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

Don't everyone thank me at once!

He who renders warfare fatal to all engaged in it will be the greatest benefactor the world has yet known.

Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Political history is far too criminal a subject to be a fit thing to teach children.