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"The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place." »Claude T Bissell
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"There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting." »Rudolf Karl Bultmann
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"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting." »David Letterman
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"Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets." »Simone Weil
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| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |