As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie

Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow. Franklin capturing the lightning, Morse annihilating space with the telegraph, Bell transmitting speech through the air by the telephone, are not less mysterious — being more ethereal, perhaps in one sense they are even more so — still, the labor of the world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine in a class apart by itself.

gradually withdrew from all such enterprises and made up my mind to go entirely contrary to the adage not to put all one’s eggs in one basket. I determined that the proper policy was to put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket

Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.