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• At the working-man's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter!
  nor will the bailiff or the constable enter; for industry pays debts, but despair increaseth them....
• Efficiency takes time Frugality: who can afford it?
• Standards are industry's way of codifying obsolescence.
• flag day n. A software change that is neither forward- nor backward-compatible, and which is costly to make and costly to reverse.
  Can we install that without causing a flag day for all users?...
• The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. -- Benjamin Frankli
• The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.
  -- Will Roge...
• The use of money is all the advantage there is to having money. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
• True wealth is not so much having luck, industry, and talent, as it is having lots of money.