buffer-overflowed's Journal: Devil's Dictionary

Corporation (noun): An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

So true.

Cool

[leoPetr]

I have a really nice editiong of the Devil's Dictionary sitting on a shelf. I really should read it one of this days.:D

Re:Cool

[Philip K Dickhead]

It is very amusing. Bierce, poor bitter man, was funny as hell, and usually insightful. If you like Mencken and Whistler... He's a bit like that - and a dab of Groucho.

Of course ...

[pudge]

... without corporations, the pace of economic growth would be very slow, and we'd not have nearly the high standard of living or the technological advancement we see today.

Re:Of course ...

[Jhon]

So what you are saying is that "corporations" much like any other human invention can be used for good OR bad? Kind of like a screwdriver -- used to build a strong bed or to stab someone?

Imagine that!

BO quotes Bierce. I quote Pope:

All Nature is art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good;
And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.

The great point you made was far too b