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• The value of money has an objective regulator only when it is linked to a real commodity, like gold, itself requiring the cost of human labor to be produced.
  By comparison, the value of inconvertible paper money has no objective regulator, its marginal cost of production being nearly zero....
• By establishing real money, men rule out its debasement. -- Lewis E. Lehrma
• Optimization is not some mystical state of grace, it is an intricate act of human labor which carries real costs and real risks.
  -- Tom Neff...
• anoacre /nan'oh-ay`kr/ n. A unit (about 2 mm square) of real estate on a VLSI chip.
  The term gets its giggle value from the fact that VLSI nanoacres have costs in the same range as real acres once one figures in design and fabrication-setup costs....
• anoacre: /nan'oh-ay`kr/ n. A unit (about 2 mm square) of real estate on a VLSI chip.
  The term gets its giggle value from the fact that VLSI nanoacres have costs in the same range as real acres once one figures in design and fabrication-setup costs....
• The treasury Department really could have stirred up controversy about what female should be featured on a U.
  S. monetary unit by announcing that a new three-dollar bill would bear the likeness of Anita Bryant....
• Money, therefore, if it is to be anything, must be at least an efficient and trustworthy instrument by which working people accumulate savings.
  -- Lewis E. Lehrnma...
• This unit ... must ... survive.