Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Man’s exploitation of the environment is a circuitous route to unintended suicide.

Often what we see as progress in the right direction is merely the improvement of a wrong solution.

A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.

The optometry industry profits immensely from most people’s blindness to the fact that civilization has made eye exercises a necessity for most people.

Because of things such as disease and poverty, some animals, which are already dead, smell way less unpleasantly than some people, who are still alive.

Some people are too poor to need a lock.

The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.

Advertising is often the price we pay for not paying, or for not having paid, for the product.