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“Society cannot be proud when a product is available only to a select few...Equating the expensive with the beautiful cannot be a point of pride.”
― Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things

“Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.”
― David P. Billington

“[...] most American cities have been designed or redesigned principally around the assumption of universal automotive use, resulting in obligatory car ownership, typically one per adult—starting at age sixteen. In these cities, and in most of our nation, the car is no longer an instrument of freedom, but rather a bulky, expensive, and dangerous prosthetic device, a prerequisite to viable citizenship.”
― Jeff Speck, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

“Irritability is anger that lacks self-knowledge.”
― The School of Life (PUK Rights), The School of Life: An Emotional Education