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In An Underdeveloped Country, When You Are Absent, Your Job Is Taken Away From You
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In an underdeveloped country, when you are absent, your job is taken
away from you; in a developed country a new one is piled on you.
-- Professor Charles P. Issawi
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Last Words of Advice: If you pay your taxes and don't get into debt and go to bed early and never answer the telephone, no harm can befall you.
-- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
The degree of a country's development is measured by the ratio of the price of an automobile to that of the cost of a haircut.
The lower the ratio, the higher the degree of development. -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
When we call others dogmatic, what we really object to is their holding dogmas that are different from our own.
-- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of 2 to 4 the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical.
(Examples: Japanese on warplanes, Russians on the bomb, Iranians on refineries ....
In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the wate
in a developed country, don't breathe the air. -- Changing Times Magazine...
The less you enjoy serving on committees, the more likely you are to be pressed to do so.
(Explanation: If you do not like committees, you keep quiet, nod your head, and look wise while thinking of something else and thereby acquire the reputation of being a judicious and cooperative colleague...
I am a firm believer in socialism and I know that the quicker you have monopoly in this country the quicker you will have socialism.
-- Charles P. Steinmetz...
0357 Have you memorized the UUCP map for your country?
0358 ... For any country? -- from THE HACKER TEST...
I'm from Georgia -- what country are YOU from?