Invention, Planning, Life

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
~ Willy Wonka

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
~ Dwight Eisenhower

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
~ William James

Is trivia reality?

Plans are useless, planning is essential.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
~ Robert Heinlein

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
~ Philip K. Dick