Few things show the human character in a more ridiculous light than the circumstance of will-making. It is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition, and we take care to make a good use of it.

Work that makes you unhappy is what I mean by a gnarly problem. The trouble is, the market pays for solutions to gnarly problems, not solutions to easy problems. As the Yorkshire lads say, Where there's muck, there's brass.

Rid me these Villaines from your companies; / Hang them, or stab them, drowne them in a draught, / Confound them by some course, and come to me, / Ile giue you Gold enough.

Victor Adler was born in a small Moravian town on the Galician border.