Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, "I have done it."

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As quoted in The Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951) by Evan Esar, p. 103 | As quoted in More Random Walks In Science : An Anthology (1982) by Robert L. Weber, p. 109

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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. || In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

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