Quote of the day
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Robert J. Samuelson

Born: December 23, 1945 (age 79)
Bio: Robert Jacob Samuelson is a journalist for The Washington Post, where he has written about business and economic issues since 1977, and is syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group. He was a columnist for Newsweek magazine from 1984 to 2011.
Known for:
- The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath (2008)
- Good Life & Its Discontent (1995)
- Untruth: Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong (2001)