Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head. — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming,… — Cliff Shaw Copy Share Image
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Capitalism designates an economic system significantly characterized by the predominance of "capital." Capitalism and double entry bookkeeping are absolutely indissociable; their relationship… — Werner Sombart Copy Share Image
Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping… — George Will Copy Share Image
Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
Private property works like circuitry in electronics, or piping in hydraulics. It conveys wages to the owners of labor power, as well… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
