Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
David Landes

Born: April 29, 1924
Died: August 17, 2013 (aged 89)
Bio: David Saul Landes was a professor of economics and of history at Harvard University. He is the author of Bankers and Pashas, Revolution in Time, The Unbound Prometheus, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and Dynasties.
Known for:
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998)
- The Unbound Prometheus (1969)
- Revolution in Time (1983)







