Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.
R. G. LeTourneau
[At the end of
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen’s egg don’t turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that … Read more