2 Quotes by Joel Levy

The ancient writer Suetonius tells the story that an inventor around 70 CE displayed to a Roman emperor a machine that could move columns, only to be dismissed with the objection that such labor-saving devices would cause the poor to starve by robbing them of employment.

In 1597, financially, physically, and spiritually exhausted , de Berrio (Don Antonio de Berrio) passed away with the bitter epitaph, 'If you try to do too much you will end by doing nothing at all.